Why does she think a superintelligence would switch itself off?
Suzanne is confusingly using “switch itself off” to mean “wirehead itself”.
Some types of wirehead wind up “on the nod”—in a dysfunctional, comatose state.
So why would it do that?
Why do humans take drugs? They try them, they like them.
Suzanne is confusingly using “switch itself off” to mean “wirehead itself”.
Some types of wirehead wind up “on the nod”—in a dysfunctional, comatose state.
Why do humans take drugs? They try them, they like them.