Mind Crimes

A hypothetical dilemma has just become real.

Don't actually do this.

Back in 2014, when Nick Bostrom wrote Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (a wonderful book I still have a pending review to write), he typified the kinds of problems an advanced world that gives rise to superintelligences could cause.

Between those dangers was one called Mind Crimes, and those are not hypothetical anymore.

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