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Re:Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People by pc86 on Friday December 23, 2016 @08:50AM (#13244678)
You are missing the point. If everyone around you wants you dead and willing to do it, you're going to die. If the CIA knows of a terrorist camp and wants to kill the people there, they are going to die.

AI doesn't change this it just makes it easier.

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Re:Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People by andrepd on Friday December 23, 2016 @08:54AM (#13244697)
Everyone wanted Bin Laden dead, but it still took a few years to manage that. So perhaps not as straightforward.
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Re:Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People by generj on Friday December 23, 2016 @09:52AM (#13244969)
Not everyone wanted Bin Laden dead. Critically, the people he was hiding with and his organization as a whole very much wanted him alive. The people who actually surrounded him on a daily basis did not want to kill him.
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Re:Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People by pc86 on Friday December 23, 2016 @10:09AM (#13245050)
How long between the time the CIA knew where he was (definitively) and the time he was killed?
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