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Is AI the Paperclip?
- gentleman11 8mo agoHonestly, after thinking about it, i guess it will be
- bananaflag 8mo agoOf course. You don't need any "weird" goal like paperclips. You just need the basic goals of survival and expansion that every species posesses (implicitly) to understand why a superintelligence is a danger.
- gom_jabbar 8mo agoInstrumental convergence is final convergence (w/o final goal divergence following instrumental convergence as assumed by Bostrom).
- saulpw 8mo agoMoney is the paperclip.
- facemelt2 8mo ago>Are we not madly harvesting the world’s resources in a monomaniacal attempt to optimize artificial intelligence? No, we are not madly harvesting the world's resources in a monomaniacal attempt to optimize artificial intelligence. We are, however, harvesting the world's resources in an attempt to optimize artificial intelligence.
- moomin 8mo agoCharlie Stross gives a great talk about Slow AI in which he argues that you don’t actually need a computer to build a paperclip oprimiser, and money is already a great paperclip.
- thebeardisred 8mo agoI'm amazed no one has linked the game version - https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html