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Eliezer Yudkowsky on the Dangers of AI

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The Importance of Magic

A smarter mind knows about rules of the game that you do not know. Even a super intelligence may not be able to win against you at logical tic tic toe because the game is too narrow. There's are there are some classes of computer security flaws like row hammer where if you flip a certain bit very rapidly or at the right frequency, the bit next to it in memory will flip. That's magic code. My guess as to what would actually be exploited to kill us would be this. This. And they'll still be surprised at the end results because it exploits a law of the environment they don't know about. If we're going to say the word magic means anything at

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