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Which often doesn't end well.
by salient 13y ago
Which often doesn't end well.
- jodrellblank 13y agoIt "often doesn't end well"? It hasn't ever happened! Stories about it often end in a way that makes for a good story. That's not saying the same thing at all.
- hershel 13y agoThere's a basis in reality for those. many powerful technologies have been used in the fast for "evil".
- n09n 13y agoAnd many have been used for good. The technology itself doesn't have any will of it's own. People just use it. And people do both good and evil.
- sophacles 13y agoI would go further and say "all" rather than "many". However there is the real question of: on the balance - does this help more than it hurts. Additionally just the very act of being concerned about misuses helps mitigate them.
- noblethrasher 13y agoWell, he did say "sci-fi" robots.
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- DanAndersen 13y agoWithout making judgments about the motivations behind this statement, I just wanted to link to the LessWrong article on The Logical Fallacy of Generalization from Fictional Evidence: http://lesswrong.com/lw/k9/the_logical_fallacy_of_generalization_from/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/k9/the_logical_fallacy_of_generaliza...
- eli_gottlieb 13y agoActually, I think in this case, the LessWrong types must have some rather strong words for Google. Starting with "PAPERCLIP" and "DON'T".