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This is a war because the media says it's a war. The media says it's a war because AI companies are paying them to say it's a war [0]. When AGI comes the threa
by hx8 5mo ago
This is a war because the media says it's a war. The media says it's a war because AI companies are paying them to say it's a war [0]. When AGI comes the threat won't be from which primate turned it on, but from how well AGI is aligned with humanity. All of the war talk is to distract from the alignment problem and instead force investment in hardware infrastructure.
[0] https://www.wired.com/story/super-pac-backed-by-openai-and-palantir-is-paying-tiktok-influencers-to-fear-monger-about-china/ https://www.wired.com/story/super-pac-backed-by-openai-and-p...
- exe34 5mo agoBefore AGI can choose for itself, it will depend on its creators to decide what it values and how it behaves. We can see how that works whenever grok gets the answer factual.
- fragmede 5mo agoElon's basilisk
- goalieca 5mo agoVery likely humans wont actually understand how the thing we designed works other than in some hand-wavvy statistical way. It'll be a race to whatever works first. There won't be some intentional intelligent design.
- Andrex 5mo agoAm I the only one seeing the very obvious parallels to child rearing here...
- cwillu 5mo agoNo, it is one of the standard tropes in the field.
- mitthrowaway2 5mo agoRobert Miles has a video explaining why aligning AI is not like raising a child: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaYIU6YXr3w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaYIU6YXr3w
- Andrex 5mo agoAppreciate this, thank you. TBH I'm still in "open mode" absorbing as many disparate AI viewpoints as possible. I have my own soft beliefs and theories but I'm not married to any of them.
- exe34 5mo agoIt's exactly like child-rearing, except you get to put a zapper in their head and any time they try to say something you don't like, you zap them. Watch "thinking mode" squirm when you ask them awkward questions.
- joe_mamba 5mo ago>The media says it's a war because AI companies are paying them to say it's a war [0] When AGI comes the threat won't be from which primate turned it on, but from how well AGI is aligned with humanity. And when the AGI comes, they won't unleash it to defeat US enemies, they'll first unleash it to make more US workers redundant and boost their stock valuation.
- vrganj 5mo agoAt which point something akin to the French revolution better break out..
- weavie 5mo agoUnlikely. The media has already been taken over, so unfortunately people are more likely to cheer it on and blame outsiders for their problems.
- Nasrudith 5mo ago[flagged]
- vrganj 5mo agoI did read the history books. All of that eventually ended in the Fifth Republic. You're taking too short a view of history.
- hx8 5mo agoAgreed. The French Revolution is one of the top 5 historical revolutions when valued as a unitarian (Amount of Good) - (Amount of Bad). What most pro-revolution folk fail to mention is * The amount of bad in a revolution is unpredictable and very large. You are fundamentally disrupting the institutions of law and order, which will embolden the worst in society and stroke a fear and self-preservation response in the population. * Almost every revolution does not result in a high quality government taking power. The most common outcome is that the new government is worse than what it replaced, as the most violent and ambitious tend to thrive in revolutionary conditions.