[ExI] Survival

Stathis Papaioannou stathisp at gmail.com
Thu Jan 3 22:09:10 UTC 2008


On 04/01/2008, John K Clark <jonkc at att.net> wrote:

> Even Extropians are not immune from this sort of thing. Although we don't
> like to think so we are of the same species as millions of Germans, some
> very intelligent, who were persuaded into doing all sorts of bizarre stupid
> and self destructive things. If you really have the gift of gab you can even
> make that crap seem like a good idea. Mr. AI will have the gift of gab in
> spades.

No doubt, a superintelligent AI that is able to orchestrate an entire
political campaign will do very well, although there will be platforms
so unpopular that the AI will simply conclude that it is impossible to
win. And persuasion through, say, a single email would be even more
difficult.





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Stathis Papaioannou



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