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Re:Thoughts on OpenAI, reinforcement learning, and killer ro... by 21 on Saturday July 29, 2017 @10:01AM (#14881253)
Climate change is not adversarial, the weather will not try to disrupt and avoid you fixing it.

Fighting a passive adversary is a much easier thing than fighting an active one (especially one smarter than you).

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Re:Thoughts on OpenAI, reinforcement learning, and killer ro... by lemming on Sunday July 30, 2017 @06:15AM (#14885312)
Actually, when it comes to climate change, humans are doing a pretty good job at being adversarial to our own best interest already. We don't need anything much more intelligent than us to avoid fixing the problem.
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