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Lumifer comments on Open Thread, January 11-17, 2016 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lumifer 12 January 2016 06:08:39PM 0 points [-]

There is a field that thinks hard about risks from unintelligent computers (computer security)

Not quite. Computer security deals with managing risks coming from people, it's just that the universe where it has to manage risks is a weird superposition of the physical world (see hardware or physical-access attacks), the social world (see social engineering attacks), and the cyberworld (see the usual 'sploit attacks).