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Comment author: turchin 08 September 2016 10:27:23AM 0 points [-]

I don't think that "tendencies" is right wording here. Like a calculator has a keyboard and a processor. The keyboard provides digits for multiplication, but the processor doesn't have any own tendencies.

But it still could define context

Comment author: entirelyuseless 08 September 2016 01:57:17PM 0 points [-]

The processor has tendencies. It is subject to the law of gravity and many other physical tendencies. That is why I mentioned the fact that the parts of an AI are physical. They are bodies, and have many bodily tendencies, no matter what algorithms are programmed into them.