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> Any high-level intelligence can learn to want something.

Humans, and all animals, act on drives and urges beyond the ability to control through the application of intelligence. This is especially true for survival and reproduction. This is much stronger than the mere idea that survival is a Good Thing, and it is also what a machine intelligence would lack.




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