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The idea of a superintelligence becoming a bond villain via freelance software jobs (or, let's be honest, OnlyFans scamming) is not something I consider an exis
by Mizza 3y ago
The idea of a superintelligence becoming a bond villain via freelance software jobs (or, let's be honest, OnlyFans scamming) is not something I consider an existential threat. I can't find it anything other than laughable.
It's like you've looked at the Fermi paradox and decided we need Congress to immediately invest in anti-alien defense forces.
It's super-intelligent and it's a super-hacker and it's a super-criminal and it's super-self-replicating and it super-hates-humanity and it's super-uncritical and it's super-goal-oriented and it's super-perfect-at-mimicking-humans and it's super-compute-efficient and it's super-etcetera.
Meanwhile, I work with LLMs every day and can only get them to print properly formatted JSON "some" of the time. Get real.
- NateEag 3y ago> The idea of a superintelligence becoming a bond villain via freelance software jobs (or, let's be honest, OnlyFans scamming) is not something I consider an existential threat. I can't find it anything other than laughable. Conservative evangelical Christians find evolution laughable. Finding something laughable is not a good reason to dismiss it as impossible. Indeed, it's probably a good reason to think "What am I so dangerously certain of that I find contradictory ideas comical?" > Meanwhile, I work with LLMs every day and can only get them to print properly formatted JSON "some" of the time. Get real. I don't think the current generation of LLMs is anything like AGI, nor an existential risk. That doesn't mean it's impossible for some future software system to present an existential risk.