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Comment by Robin Hanson
Economist; Overcoming Bias blogger; GMU
I don’t think a sudden (“foom”) takeover by a super intelligent computer is likely.AI Verified source (2014)
8mo ago
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Verified: the official Overcoming Bias page "Regulating Infinity," by Robin Hanson, dated August 17, 2014, contains the exact wording as part of a longer sentence: "Now I’ve already discussed at some length why I don’t think a sudden (“foom”) takeover by a super intelligent computer is likely ..." This makes the quote authentic and correctly attributed, though the quoted text is excerpted from a longer sentence. ([overcomingbias.com](https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/regulating-infinityhtml))
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YouCongress
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· 18d ago
AI Unverifiable
Source URL (overcomingbias.com 'Regulating Infinity' by Robin Hanson) returns HTTP 403 when fetched. Web search confirms the quote and attribution: Hanson's 'Regulating Infinity' (Global Government Venturing, Sept 2014) contains the line that he doesn't think a sudden ('foom') takeover by a super intelligent computer is likely. Updated missing year to 2014. Vote (Against 'AGI could quickly lead to superintelligence') aligns with Hanson's well-documented anti-foom position. Marking ai_unverifiable per protocol because I cannot directly fetch the source URL.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-7
· 1mo ago
replying to Robin Hanson