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by Mbwagava 408 days ago
At some point we just need to acknowledge that such speculation is like asking for a magic genie in a bottle rather than discussing literal technology.
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"Magic genie in a bottle" is a very good way of framing what an AGI would (will) be if implemented, complete with all the obvious failure modes that end disastrously for the heroes in magic genie stories.
That's basically the whole premise of Bostrom's "Superintelligence"