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entirelyuseless comments on Nick Bostrom says Google is winning the AI arms race - Less Wrong Discussion

3 Post author: polymathwannabe 05 October 2016 06:50PM

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Comment author: entirelyuseless 07 October 2016 05:12:24AM 0 points [-]

Also, the wand is optimizing. The reason is that it doesn't just do some consistent chemical process that works in some circumstances: it works no matter what particular circumstances it is in. It is just the same as the fact that a paperclipper produces paperclips no matter what circumstance it starts out in.

A supernova on the other hand does not optimize, because it produces different results in different situations.