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https://ifanyonebuildsit.com/ https://ifanyonebuildsit.com/ "If anyone builds it, everyone dies".
by throwaway81523 1y ago
https://ifanyonebuildsit.com/ https://ifanyonebuildsit.com/ "If anyone builds it, everyone dies".
- clbrmbr 1y agoWe can reduce p(doom | superintelligence) though safety efforts.
- blibble 1y agowhat incentive does facebook have to make anything other than token efforts re: safety? "safety" is them paying to slow down their own research
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- staticman2 1y agoWhat does "safety" mean in this context? Are you asking what incentive Zuckerberg has in not causing the AI apocalypse? Off the top of my head it would decrease his real estate portfolio value I guess?
- blibble 1y agohe obviously thinks he can maintain control, else he wouldn't be trying it in the first place (unless he's one of these must-summon-the-machine-god assholes)
- qoez 1y agoSafety research is mainly focused on avoiding bad words and introducing political bias. There's no fine tuning that can prevent mass unemployment and similar secondary effects.
- clbrmbr 1y agoBut those fall infinitely short of doom.
- xdavidliu 1y agoyudkowsky would probably disagree with that statement these days; as I understand, he thinks that short of miracle, these efforts won't amount to much
- spot 1y agoIf anyone posts Yudkowsky, everyone is made stupider. https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/ZS9GDsBtWJMDEyFXh/eliezer-yudkowsky-is-frequently-confidently-egregiously https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/ZS9GDsBtWJMDEyFXh/...
- saubeidl 1y agoSaying that while unironically posting "effective" "altruism" is a special kind of funny.
- quickthrowman 1y agoHis finest work is Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality.
- AndrewKemendo 1y agoI’m surprised he’s still around but that book looks exactly like what I’d expect