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Machine intelligence, part 1

This is going to be a two-part post—one on why machine intelligence is something we should be afraid of, and one on what we should do about it....

Published 2015-02-25 5 min read 1,095 words 4 topics
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This is going to be a two-part post—one on why machine intelligence is something we should be afraid of, and one on what we should do about it....

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This is going to be a two-part post—one on why machine intelligence is something we should be afraid of, and one on what we should do about it. If you’re already afraid of machine intelligence, you can skip this one and read the second post tomorrow—I was planning to only write part 2, but when I
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