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I've Changed My Mind About Artificial General Intelligence

Ias: I'm not a conventional fan of the singularity on thot somebody who's awaiting these changes with a kurtswiley in glee. If we can do this, well, obviously huge benefits will come from building artificial general intelligence. But how do you get there without inadvertently building a angry little god in a box that takes no more concern over your interest than we take over the interests of snails and cockroaches and ants? We are on collision course with this reality unless we troy ourselves some other way. It sounds like a pure science fiction but when you get into the details, you see that, not only is this a plausible set of concerns, we

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