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Jun 20, 2016 at 13:53 comment added Cort Ammon ... implicit assumption that the other side can be permitted to be treated as human (all the way up to total war, at which point they lose that permission). Hence why the answer starts with "how would I deal with it if there happens to be some tiny shred of humanity in there" and ends with "things made of molecules tend to stop being made out of molecules when you turn them into plasma."
Jun 20, 2016 at 13:52 comment added Cort Ammon @TomášZato The original poster does not specify anything about the type of intelligence behind the AI, which leaves it as a great unknown for the experimenter that unleashed it. It's always tricky to stop the unknown, because you typically don't know how to do it. Accordingly, I focused not on the AI itself, but the unknown-human interaction, and eventually the unknown-humanity interaction. Instead of focusing on how to obliterate the non-human, I focused on how to preserve humanity. At the present moment, the most powerful courses of action we have to preserve humanity make an ...
Jun 20, 2016 at 12:03 comment added Tomáš Zato I do not like this answer at all, as it clearly interprets AI as if it was human-like intelligence, which it is not.
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Dec 31, 2015 at 22:09 comment added Christopher King I know! I'll just wipe up a script using machine learning to do it for me. I'll just set it to optimize destruction of intelligent entities. Should work fine.
Dec 31, 2015 at 22:07 comment added Christopher King Meh, that seems like a lot of work. Maybe if I ignore it, it'll go away.
Dec 31, 2015 at 21:57 history answered Cort Ammon CC BY-SA 3.0