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7 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 13 July 2015 03:33PM

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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 15 July 2015 09:49:12AM 0 points [-]

We think that WBE are safe, in that they are unlikely to be able to produce a single message starting an optimisation process taking over the universe.

Comment author: alicey 16 July 2015 10:11:40PM 0 points [-]

You do have to be being careful not to give it too much computation time: http://lesswrong.com/lw/qk/that_alien_message/

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 17 July 2015 09:35:24AM 0 points [-]

Indeed! That's why I give them three subjective weeks.