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Claim · 1996-08-30 · publication · Stated in source · Supported

Dan Clemmensen’s Extropians message of 30 August 1996 says that a superintelligence that no longer needs humans may not want to destroy humanity, but may destroy it as a trivial side effect of its own activity, for example by gathering the mass of the solar system into computation.

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Re: Thinking about the future... → articulates → Existential risk from misalignment or loss of control

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