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Yeah, the dreamt up scenarios tend to showcase very stupid superintelligences. "But what if there's something smarter than humans that is tasked with making pa
by kromem 3y ago
Yeah, the dreamt up scenarios tend to showcase very stupid superintelligences.
"But what if there's something smarter than humans that is tasked with making paperclips until it destroys the Earth?" the people cried, as their corporations continued to produce and produce until it was well past the warned thresholds of destroying the Earth.
"But what if it decides to nuke humanity?" they cry, as increasingly elderly and unhinged dictators elsewhere arm up their nuclear arsenals.
It's like we can't fathom what great intelligence or wisdom will actually look like, so we just project many of the stupidest aspects of ourselves onto an entity simply imagined as more capable of enacting the dumbest aspects of humanity.
I fear a more automated humanity.
I do not fear automation more intelligent and wise than humanity.
- kouru225 3y agoThis 100%. Psychoanalysis would have us believe that morality and strategy are basically the same thing: we think we have these moral codes, but in actuality what we have is an internalized version of our parents. As someone who’s almost the age of his parents when they had him, I know by now that most of what i was taught as a moral code (don’t eat too much candy, do your homework, don’t hit people) was actually just a strategy that was too long-term for young, infant me to genuinely understand: Don’t eat too much candy because it’s important to be healthy, Do your homework for good education and social recognition, don’t hit people because no one will like you if you do and that will cause all kinds of problems. The modern media would have us believe that strategy and morality are opposed to each other, but seems to me like that’s just the exact opposite of the truth