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Eliezer Yudkowsky on the Dangers of AI

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The Trade-Off of Our Laws of Magic

The answer is that biology has to be a valveable. Everything it's built out of has to get there as a mistake from some other confirmation. And so your hands are made out of proteins that fold up basically held together by the equivalent of static clean vendor wells forces rather than covalent bonds. This is like the trade off of our laws of magic that if you want to heal yourself and replicate itself you can't be as strong as steel. There's vastly more room above biology. So, this is actually not even exploiting laws of nature that I don't know. It's the equivalent of playing better chess,. where you understand how proteins fold and you design a tiny molecular lab to

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