Zero Powers writes,
> Funny. We all expect that eventually the AI will be exponentially more
> intelligent than humans, but at the same time *some* of us expect that we'll
> somehow be able to keep that genie safely trapped in his bottle.
There's no contradiction in that.
We're all smarter than you, yet you manage to keep us safely trapped in this
word exchange.
(Just kidding. You're smarter than all of us, but we keep you trapped in this
e-mail list.)
--J. R.
"I have secluded myself from society; and yet I never meant any such
thing. I have made a captive of myself and put me into a dungeon, and
now I cannot find the key to let myself out."
--Nathaniel Hawthorne
[Amara Graps Collection]
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