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It certainly is the most important technical problem of our time, if we end up developing such a system. That conditional makes all the difference.
by xanderlewis 2y ago
It certainly is the most important technical problem of our time, if we end up developing such a system.
That conditional makes all the difference.
- hyperliner 2y ago[dead]
- SideburnsOfDoom 2y agoIt's a hell of a conditional, though. "How are all those monkeys flying out of my butt?" would be the important technical problem of our time, if and only if, monkeys were flying out of my butt. It's still not a very important statement, if you downplay or omit the conditional. Is "building safe superintelligence (SSI) is the most important technical problem of our time" full stop ? Is it fuck.
- xanderlewis 2y agoYeah — that was exactly my (slightly sarcastic) point. Let us know if you ever encounter that monkey problem, though. Hopefully we can all pull together to find a solution.
- SideburnsOfDoom 2y ago> Let us know if you ever encounter that monkey problem Ah, the subtlety escaped me there. My (extremely sarcastic) point is that aside from being personally embarrassing, this would (to belabour the joke) violate many laws of physics and biology, and therefor the scientific and medical community would take immediate note and try to establish a basis for how this could be physically possible.