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>the alignment problems that plague AI safety research are all playing out in company structures every day. Yes yes yes holy crap yes. Corporations are AI, an
by dTal 4y ago
>the alignment problems that plague AI safety research are all playing out in company structures every day.
Yes yes yes holy crap yes.
Corporations are AI, and we are already in the AI apocalypse. Corporations exhibit emergent behavior that any individual human involved with them is powerless to stop, and they self-optimize towards inhuman goals. Coca Cola inc is a paperclip maximizer, except it maximizes the consumption of flavored sugar water. We are completely failing as a society to adequately rein them in.
- jacquesm 4y agoThere is this movie called Idiocracy. When I saw it the first time I thought it was hilarious. But over time I've stopped laughing and I now more or less realize that the makers may well have intended something funny but accidentally ended up making a prophesy. Or maybe they intended that from the get-go but they dressed it up as something funny for budget reasons. It's scary how many of the things that are in that movie as caricatures you can now find IRL.
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- saulpw 4y agoMike Judge is a genius. He also did Office Space and Silicon Valley, among other things (I personally love King of the Hill). He has a sharp eye for both society and humor.
- RangerScience 4y agoFav Dune quote (it's from book 4): > The problem isn't thinking machines, it's letting machines do the thinking for you ...and then I like to point out that many of our social structures (including corporations) are, essentially, machines. They're just machines running on meat instead of silicon.