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Artaxerxes comments on December 2015 Media Thread - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Artaxerxes 02 December 2015 08:41:43PM *  1 point [-]

Yeah, I pretty much agree, but the important point to make is that any superintelligent ant hive hypotheses would have to be at least as plausible and relevant to the topic of the book as Hanson's ems to make it in. Note Bostrom dismisses brain-computer interfaces as a superintelligence pathway fairly quickly.