[ExI] elections again

[Harvey Newstrom]

On Sunday 30 December 2007 11:42, John K Clark wrote:
> Or make certain the technology is so powerful that the rebellion is of
> trivial importance.

That's great if you are the dictator.  But do you want someone else gaining 
ultimate power of the entire world including you?

> > How can someone create a super-AI without
> > threatening the people who don't want the
> > possibility of an AI dictator?
>
> That is an easy question to answer, you can't.

Oh, ye of little faith.  Of course we can.  It just takes a little more 
effort.  Are we really that lazy or impatient that we won't work to make our 
technology safe before we deploy it?  We just want to plow ahead, damn the 
torpedoes?

And isn't this just begging for somebody to preemptively nuke us in 
self-defense?

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