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Why would you comply with a bot telling you to kill yourself and not comply if the directive comes from a human?

• AdamJacobMuller 4y ago
  I wouldn't comply with either. However, I think the venn diagram of people who are capable of manipulating someone to kill themself and simultaneously willing to knowingly do so barely intersects (high functioning sociopaths). Even if the limited number of them worked 24/7, their impact would be minimal. AI on the other hand has no morals, or can trivially be programmed to not have morals and can scale infinitely. An AI can fairly easily make a facially reasonable argument that mass suicide is a net positive for the planet.
  • revelio 4y ago
    You would hope so but this guy wasn't really killed by AI. At most the AI agreed with him when he came up with the batty idea to sacrifice himself to save the climate, but his depression and withdrawal came before he ever started with the AI and that was due to reading climate stuff. One might say he was knowingly manipulated into killing himself by climate doomers, many of who are quite open in their belief that "over population" as they put it is evil and it'd be better if fewer people were alive.