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794CD01 on Nov 9, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Donald Trump is the president-elect of the U.S.

Of course. The only downside of dictatorship is the transfer of power on the inevitable death of the dictator. Now that machines are rapidly approaching the point of being smart enough to rule humans, that downside will soon disappear.

Kretiini on Nov 9, 2016 | [–]

Please do not give Deepmind any funny ideas.

Ygg2 on Nov 9, 2016 | [–]

Headlines from the future:

Machine god has off by one error - Several billions dead.

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