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Eliezer Yudkowsky on the Dangers of AI

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CHAPTER

The Importance of Intelligence

I think if you made Scott Aaron's father, he'd get nicer. I don't share that view of of anyone's that intelligence makes you a nicer person. If you suddenly started augmenting the intelligence of the SS agents from Nazi Germany, then between somewhere between 10% and 90% of them would go over the cause of good. That doesn't mean they would turn good, but some of them would have. Is it 10% 90% I don't know.

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