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16 Post author: shminux 15 July 2015 06:41PM

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Comment author: Pfft 17 July 2015 03:07:33PM *  5 points [-]

Coming up: the post is promoted to Main; it is re-released as a MIRI whitepaper; Nick Bostrom publishes a book-length analysis; The New Yorker features a meandering article illustrated by a tasteful watercolor showing a trolly attacked by a Terminator.

Comment author: Lumifer 17 July 2015 03:21:36PM 1 point [-]

Followed by a blockbuster movie where Hollywood kicks the tasteful watercolor to the curb and produces an hour-long battle around the trolley between a variety of Terminators, Transformers, and X-Men, led by Shodan on one side and GlaDOS on the other, while in a far-off Tibetan monastery the philosophers meditate on the meaning of the word mu.