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> Competing with AI is an artificial competition. I think that it's a competition with other human beings in the same sense that the nuclear arms race or mecha

> Competing with AI is an artificial competition. I think that it's a competition with other human beings in the same sense that the nuclear arms race or mechanized warfare are artificial competitions. You can't guarantee that other actors won't create AGI and use them to their own advantage any more than you can stop other nation states from building machine guns or nuclear weapons. The rise of AI is a competition between human beings. AGI has potential applications in a wide variety of economic, scientific and military endeavours, like many other transformative technologies. Unless you have a strategy to ban AI research globally, it's a moot point. Somebody is going to make AGI work, and whoever it is will be calling the shots because they will have the technology.

kuurin 10y ago
Well, there is always the nuclear option. Just use an EMP attack. In any case, we're still dealing with scalability. The amount of computation per volume is still such that the odds are against anyone who would make a destabilizing move. Too much hardware volume to conceal anything that isn't already possible. Even in finance, for example, if word got out that someone found a way to flip the markets because of a better algorithm, there would be a response. There won't be any one actor with a "singularity", it will just be a matter of a threshold unto another paradigm, and from then on it will be business as usual within the realm of zero-sum games. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xZmlUV8muY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xZmlUV8muY