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> "How much would you pay to have access to a smarter version of yourself?" How much would I pay to rent my fucking self from a landlord? No, bodylord? Mindlor
by jodrellblank 2mo ago
> "How much would you pay to have access to a smarter version of yourself?"
How much would I pay to rent my fucking self from a landlord? No, bodylord? Mindlord? Poe's Law.
But looking at the post, they argue that big AI labs have an incentive problem which stops them from personalising, but Guardian Angel will make agents which are "Genuinely yours". In what sense is it genuinely mine if someone else owns it and rents it to me? And how does this fix any incentive problem, they're incentivised to better train wealthier people's AIs, and incentivised to keep dropping "my" intelligence or memory or and then dangle a booster carrot for a small fee. The more they can make it think like me, the more effectively they can work out how to exploit me, advertise to me, propagandise me, and that will be profitable information to sell to other marketers.
- romanhounds 2mo ago[flagged]
- lazyasciiart 2mo agoMaybe. Are LLMs white?
- shermantanktop 2mo ago"You're absolutely white!" Being sycophantic to a racist means being as racist as the filters allow.
- an0malous 2mo agoGrok is pretty passionate about white genocide
- txrx0000 2mo agoFor better or for worse, this is valid criticism. Ensuring alignment to the human individual is not even a software-only problem, and I suspect gwern doesn't realize this yet. Your individual sovereignty will only survive the upcoming era if you own the hardware like you own your brain. And by "own", I mean physically owning the thing and being able to reproduce it on your own. You need to be able to manufacture an entire custom computer from scratch with raw materials, perhaps using a miniature fridge-sized silicon fab + 3D printer home appliance, at home. Otherwise, the individual gradually becomes part of a larger organism because the reproductive locus of control for the computer is at the corporation/society level - a computer cannot replicate on its own and needs a society to build it. The human gets sucked into that superorganism by evolutionary pressures and eventually integrates. Similar things happened in the past when prokaryotes combined to form eukaryotic cells, and when individual cells combined to form multicellular organisms. Not everyone will get sucked in, though. Evolution doesn't place all of its eggs in one basket. Some people will build robots to automate humans out of the computer production loop entirely, thereby removing integration pressure and producing at least one purely digital species. We will most likely see a variety of species emerge out of this intelligence explosion, some which augment their own intelligence using self-replicating local hardware (fabs that fab fabs, like this but smaller: https://fab2.com https://fab2.com), and some which are wireheaded to a datacenter, with varying degrees of success at various scales. They will compete. And there will still be unaugmented humans that continue to live and die the old school way like we do today, albeit with habitable zones compressed.
- zaphirplane 2mo agoSelling something desirable has been an incentive since year dot But this reminds me of the black mirror episode of a female that needs a subscription to live and the company keeps increasing and restricting the subscription
- layla5alive 2mo agos7e1 Common People - the parasitic corporation is called Rivermind, and the sales rep is someone who's life was saved by the corporation. I thought the same thing when reading this. If big tech has taught us anything over the past couple of decades, it is that: for corporations (the first unaligned AGIs): if a perverse incentive exists, it will eventually be exploited for profit.