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Re:The Dawn of AI: How to ensure the promise outweighs the p... by TeMPOraL on Thursday May 07, 2015 @11:25AM (#9505726)
I didn't mean intelligence as moral characteristic - the observation is that many bureaucracies tend to do a lot of dumb, self-defeating things. As alien minds, they're not very smart - just smart enough to be dangerous.
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Re:The Dawn of AI: How to ensure the promise outweighs the p... by coldtea on Thursday May 07, 2015 @11:55AM (#9505953)
>the observation is that many bureaucracies tend to do a lot of dumb, self-defeating things

Isn't that true for people too, that can otherwise be extremely intelligent? From being terrible at social life, to sabotaging their careers and so on?

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Re:The Dawn of AI: How to ensure the promise outweighs the p... by TeMPOraL on Thursday May 07, 2015 @12:00PM (#9506012)
Yeah, I suppose it is.
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