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turns out "don't be evil" doesn't scale.
by nikofeyn 8y ago
turns out "don't be evil" doesn't scale.
- teddyh 8y agoNeither does “be evil”. Don’t anthropomorphize the paperclip maximizer.
- jessaustin 8y agoWas the greatest trick that Page, Brin, and Schmidt ever pulled, convincing the world that they don't exist? No, that's ridiculous. There are real people making real fortunes here. If they're not ethical, it doesn't take a conspiracy theorist to point that out.
- nikofeyn 8y agoi have no idea what that means.
- dcbadacd 8y agoThis game explains the paperclip maximizer: http://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/ http://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/
- teddyh 8y agoNo? Not as far as I can see. This is better: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence#Paperclip_maximizer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence#Paper...
- dcbadacd 8y agoYou haven't played it long enough to see how it becomes the paperclip maximizer, I posted the link to the game because everyone can find the Wikipedia link.
- nikofeyn 8y agoi can and did look it up, since i hadn't heard of it before. however, that doesn't answer the question as to what the commenter meant with their comment in the context of my reply. i meant "that" as in their whole comment in context.
- mark-r 8y agoI think the idea is that a goal maximizer can create evil actions even in the absence of evil intent.