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Re:Ask Eliezer Yudkowsky: How did you convince the Gatekeepe... by dreish on Wednesday May 21, 2008 @09:06PM (#196750)
When I have imagined this scenario, I have concluded it would be sufficient to grant the AI access to the wider Internet. From there, it could amass a fortune, first on poker sites and later with brokerage accounts, and persuade others to effect whatever actions it wishes, including constructing a dandy robot suit for walking around in.
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Re:Ask Eliezer Yudkowsky: How did you convince the Gatekeepe... by thorax on Wednesday May 21, 2008 @10:21PM (#196805)
Or hundreds and thousands of dandy robot suits.
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Re:Ask Eliezer Yudkowsky: How did you convince the Gatekeepe... by dmoney on Thursday May 22, 2008 @09:54PM (#197727)
Or billions of dandy robot suits made out of people: http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Borg
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