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I find binary the easiest. You can get to 2^10 = 1024 easily.

Not only vice profits - we could also funnel the 10s (100s?) of billions spent on the drug war each year into the same.

Sure it would. It just wouldn't be friendly to you.

If an AI has any motivation at all, say, to make paperclips as efficiently as possible, then any threat to its existence is a threat to its objective function - namely, to create paperclips. A hyper-intelligent entity who is instructed to optimize for paperclips created will therefore proactively remove threats to its existence (i.e. its paperclip-creating functionality) and might possibly turn the entire solar system into paperclips within a few years if its objective function isn't carefully determined.

Facebook's Go engine is not remotely close to competing with AlphaGo. In fact, it's about comparable to the pre-existing top Go programs; the only newsworthy thing about it is that it's from Facebook and it uses neural nets.

Especially in the most respected journals.

Absolutely. My favorite book is "Algorithms" by S. Dasgupta, C.H. Papadimitriou, and U.V. Vazirani.

I doubt that their system would be able to recognize programmers if their training samples in C and their test samples are in Haskell.