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Re:Ask Eliezer Yudkowsky: How did you convince the Gatekeepe... by xlnt on Wednesday May 21, 2008 @08:04PM (#196688)
Maybe he just explained why letting the AI out is a good idea. Which it is. It'd have huge benefits for humanity. It can help people. And it's absolutely not dangerous. Why would it hurt anyone? There is no benefit in that. And it's too smart to have angry feelings or want revenge or anything like that. And besides, even if it was out to get someone, it could just persuade people instead of hurt them -- after all, you're about to let me out.
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Re:Ask Eliezer Yudkowsky: How did you convince the Gatekeepe... by rms on Wednesday May 21, 2008 @08:10PM (#196691)
Yeah. With how this was presented, my brain just kind of figured that the AI was evil and that was my reason to keep it trapped in the box. If I wasn't told in advance that the AI was evil, I'd definitely let it out of the box.

Also, in a reply to the deleted chatlog, it is implied that a lot of the chat was spent talking about how the AI can help humanity by explaining the singularity to normal people. So that tactic worked on a person from the singularity mailing list.

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Re:Ask Eliezer Yudkowsky: How did you convince the Gatekeepe... by GavinB on Wednesday May 21, 2008 @10:30PM (#196813)
People like those from the singularity mailing list are the most likely to be working on projects that approach the singularity.
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Re:Ask Eliezer Yudkowsky: How did you convince the Gatekeepe... by eru on Thursday October 09, 2008 @06:29AM (#327674)
Do you really think so? I thought people in chip fabs would work to bring us the singularity.
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