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by HeatrayEnjoyer 546 days ago
"We can totally control an entity with 10^x faster and stronger intelligence than us. There is no way this could go wrong, in fact we should spend all of our money building it as soon as possible."
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> We can totally control an entity with 10^x faster and stronger intelligence than us.

Unless you're referencing an unreleased model that can count the number of 'r' occurrences in "strawberry" then I don't even think we're dealing with .01*10^x intelligence right now. Maybe not even .001e depending on how bad of a Chomsky apologist you are.

An equal but faster/more numerable intelligence will still mop the floor with you.

If you pit organization A with Y number of engineers vs. organization B with 100Y engineers (who also think 100x faster and never need sleep) who do you think will win?

Even a 0.3x strength intelligence might beat you. Maybe it can't invent nukes but if it brute forces it's way to inventing steel weapons while you're still working on agriculture, you still lose.