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Not surprising that I'm not the first to think of this.


It's a very old trope in science fiction and most of the doom scenarios spelled out by the folks afraid of AI takeover is basically a waste of time. I would take the doomers more seriously if they actually brought some receipts from folks like Lem who were much better thinkers and much more adept at exploring the human condition and our fears of advanced machine intelligence.




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