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- Apr 2015
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lesswrong.com lesswrong.com
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- Nov 2014
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www.slate.com www.slate.com
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The Most Terrifying Thought Experiment of All Time
TLDR: Thought experiment that, by knowing about it, you are contributing to humanity enslavement to a all powerful AI
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- Oct 2013
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rhetoric.eserver.org rhetoric.eserver.org
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Even now most uneducated people think that poetical language makes the finest discourses. That is not true: the language of prose is distinct from that of poetry. This is shown by the state of things to-day, when even the language of tragedy has altered its character.
Poetry does not equal intelligence. Distinct difference between poetry and prose.
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- Sep 2013
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caseyboyle.net caseyboyle.net
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I think all intelligent people will agree with me
I like how he liked intelligence with himself, this has to be a rhetorical device of some sort?
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