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Re:Ask Eliezer Yudkowsky: How did you convince the Gatekeepe... by dusklight on Thursday May 22, 2008 @01:49PM (#197337)
Well, it seems to me that it would be irresponsible for you not to reveal the chat transcripts, precisely for the reason that you have given.

By revealing your chat transcripts, real life researchers might read it and say "I would have done it differently" and when a real transhuman intelligence emerges, the researchers can now proceed forewarned by the result from your experiments.

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Re:Ask Eliezer Yudkowsky: How did you convince the Gatekeepe... by jcl on Thursday May 22, 2008 @03:43PM (#197469)
He's not arguing that it is a bad thing that an AI gets let out of the box -- he's arguing that it is inevitable.
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