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Jach
on Feb 4, 2013
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The default outcome for AGI is likely bad (
http://singularity.org/files/ComplexValues.pdf
and
http://singularity.org/files/SaME.pdf
), but not in the ridiculous way that movies portray it, and no one should be using the movies as a substitute for thought (
http://lesswrong.com/lw/k9/the_logical_fallacy_of_generaliza...
). There are so many types of AI minds, and so many ways for it to go wrong (
http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer
) that picking out a very particular fictional one to stress over, make movies about, and attempt to constrain (even framing it as a constraint problem of some more "primitive" desire to destroy humanity) as the only default mind, is pretty silly.
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