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Re:The most precious resource is agency by ElFitz on Thursday July 01, 2021 @06:06AM (#27697737)
> And in practice raising superintelligent children who can clone themselves and rewrite their minds is not a thing we know how to do.

We could learn to. Through trial and error.

Even though a too big mistake means creating a psychopathic superinterlligent child who can clone itself, rewrite turns mind and easily hack the few American ICBMs not protected by the wondrous safety of floppy disks.

Re:The most precious resource is agency by Aeolun on Thursday July 01, 2021 @08:29AM (#27698439)
Seems a bit crazy to assume we’ll jump from ‘not close to human’ to ‘superintelligent’ without going through ‘barely adequate’?
Re:The most precious resource is agency by ElFitz on Thursday July 01, 2021 @09:38AM (#27698914)
Oh, definitely.

I was just musing on the previous comment and noting that one of the things we do best is learn how to do things we previously didn’t how to do.