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Comment author: [deleted] 16 June 2015 11:49:06AM *  0 points [-]

My thought is that (just as the FAI problem) the problem requires an invention, namely a way to engineer the world order such that this ban is effective (for example by fundamentally altering culture and traditions, by using mass surveillance, by reversing the development and restricting the fabrication of computational resources, or by highly regulating the access to certain commodities and resources required for computation such as electricity and silicon).

Comment author: ChristianKl 16 June 2015 05:27:01PM 3 points [-]

"I take over the world and create to create a unified totalitarian state" is a solution that comes with it's own existential risks.