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That doesn’t even follow when taken literally. If the company is destroyed presumably they can’t create artificial intelligence, so there is nothing there to be
by foobarian 3y ago
That doesn’t even follow when taken literally. If the company is destroyed presumably they can’t create artificial intelligence, so there is nothing there to benefit all humanity in the first place.
- comp_throw7 3y agoIt follows just fine, I think, given that the possibility space is not limited to "create beneficial AGI" and "don't create AGI". It also includes "create unaligned AGI", which is obviously much worse "don't create AGI"; the board would be remiss in its duties if it didn't try to prevent that from happening.
- concinds 3y agoCould we all stop entertaining these LessWrong hypotheticals? The notion that the board wants to shut down OpenAI to stop non-existent AGI is mad.
- Davidzheng 3y agoThe mission of benefiting humanity can also mean not harming
- liuliu 3y agoThe company is not destroyed. Board is not shutting down the company, they fired the CEO. The other ~700 people chose to quit. Not sure why it is "life-ruined" other than probably some tender offers withdrawn (and even this bit is unclear whether Thrive Capital will do that).