Also:
m: used for a second whole number when n is already taken.
p: used for primes
q: used for a second prime.
Only if the aim of the AI is to destroy humanity. Which is possible but unlikely. Whereas by instrumental convergence, all AIs, no matter their aims, will likely seek to destroy humanity and thereby reduce risk and competition for resource.
I would have concerns about suitably generic, flexible and sensitive humanoid robots, yes.
One thing to consider is how hard an AI needs to work to break out of human dependence. There's no point destroying humanity if that then leaves you with noone to man the power stations that keep you alive.
If limited nanofactories exist it's much easier to bootstrap them into whatever you want, than it is those nanofactories don't exist, and robotics haven't developed enough for you to create one without the human touch.
Presumably because there's a hope that having a larger liver could help people lose weight, which is something a lot of people struggle to do?
I imagine that part of the difference is because Orcas are hunters, and need much more sophisticated sensors + controls.
I gigantic jellyfish wouldn't have the same number of neurons as a similarly sized whale, so it's not just about size, but how you use that size.
Douglas Adams answered this long ago of course:
For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.
Thanks - I've rehauled that section. Note a Codorcet method is not sufficient here, as the counter-example I give shows.
Why? That's a fact about voting preferences in our toy scenario, not a normative statement about what people should prefer.
Yep, and when you run out of letters in a section you use the core letter from the section with a subscript.