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dude... the concern is /existential/ though, right?! to summarize, i'm not advocating for this, i'm just emphasizing there's a nifty little framework already i

• digging 3y ago
  Yes, but so is climate change, and we can't even get countries to agree to grow more slowly, let alone shut down everything. > i'm just emphasizing there's a nifty little framework already in place. More than one! Nuclear war, economic isolation, ground invasion. All kinds of nifty things we could do to stop dangerous AI. None of them are likely to happen when the risk is identified. To summarize, any easy solution to superhuman AI trying to kill all humans you can think of in a few seconds, someone has probably already thought about.
  • solarpunk 3y ago
    what if the ai superintelligence is banking on us running datacenters non-stop in the hopes of continued return on investment. all while humans are deprived of electricity needed to operate air conditioning in a continuously heating world. and we all die off from what was initially anthtrogenic, but now ai-induced climate change? i've got a two birds; one stone solution.
    • solarpunk 3y ago
      or maybe the ai superintelligence has calculated a trajectory for an asteroid on a collision course for earth guaranteed to eliminate a vast majority of life on the planet, but has a feasible disaster recovery plan for itself. and we would have a fighting chance if we could repurpose those damn nvidia GPUs currently churning through tokens to do more monte carlo experiments specific to calculating how best to deflect the immanent asteroid.