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Viliam comments on On the Galactic Zoo hypothesis - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Viliam 17 July 2015 08:57:51AM *  1 point [-]

"can be programmed to" is not the same thing as intelligence. It requires external intelligence to program it. Using the same pattern, I could say that atoms are intelligent (and maybe sort-of conscious), because for almost any human task, they can be rebuilt into something that does it.