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once we have superhuman AI (“the machine thinking

the brains of Homo sapiens have been the most

the original dissidents promulgating the AI-risk

will in no way be obliged to make such decisions as we should have made

“Speculations concerning the first ultraintelligent machine

which can learn and can make decisions on the basis of

I counted half a dozen places in The Human Use

“The first ultraintelligent machine is the last

and nanobots share a dangerous amplifying factor: They

there was a lengthy opinion piece in Wired titled

too dissident. Its time had not yet come.

the first thing I did was try to interest my

“It would make sense in the long term to delegate control over local

and (to the great annoyance of the surviving dissidents) even former

I witnessed the message spread out across widening circles of

as the state became more lenient in its treatment of dissidents

I grew up behind the Iron Curtain and had a front row seat when

even if they silently and perhaps subconsciously concurred.

Wiener’s lens brings out some interesting aspects of the

Norbert Wiener looked at the world through the