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cousin_it comments on Open thread 7th september - 13th september - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: cousin_it 08 September 2015 03:39:25PM *  4 points [-]

Yes, point taken, but Google Maps is optimizing over a pretty narrow domain. It seems to me that an application that optimized across several domains at once (physics, biology, psychology, economics) might be more dangerous, while being not much more complicated internally than Google Maps or Google Translate.