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by aidenn0 974 days ago
I thought that the content of my comment would be enough to imply a jocular tone, but perhaps not.

To answer your question: I have no reason to suspect a post-singularity AI would spend its time torturing humans. I should point out, however, that a powerful AI controlled by evil humans is less of a paradigm shift than a powerful AI not in the control of any humans. NBC weapons are already things that can do a lot of damage in the hands of evil humans.

The paperclipper thought-experiment is far more worrying to me than any of the other AI doomsday because incompetence is much more widespread than malice. I strongly suspect that I will die before any extinction level event, so it's a bit academic to me.