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by _cjse 2y ago
Well the most pressing question is whether it will kill us all. There are good reasons to suspect that; Nick Bostrom's Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (2014) remains my favorite introduction to this thorny problem, espe
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by _cjse 2y ago
Agreed with you that (a) AGI is a real, transformative, and possibly calamitous event, and (b) with the amount of money getting pumped into it we will almost certainly get there. However, I have a personal hobby horse here, which is remindi
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by _cjse 2y ago
>[D]oesn't mean they don't exist Never said they don't exist, merely that they are "minimal", aka no other policy I could think of seems like it would obviously lead to lower costs while still achieving the desir
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by _cjse 3y ago
The US could unilaterally impose this by allowing the bounties to be charged even on people who aren't US citizens. Evil people do exist in the world, who would be happy to get in on that action. Or one could use honey instead of vineg
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by _cjse 3y ago
If you lower the problem to "stop people from future developments on AI", then it seems pretty easy to get most people to stop fairly quickly by implementing a fine-based bounty system, similar to what many countries use for thing
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by _cjse 3y ago
I wrote a short essay about using a little known economic system to combat black ball technologies in Nick Bostrom's sense. I keep it online now, even though I have since developed some private criticisms of it, because of the wide var
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by _cjse 3y ago
A market of human-oriented hardware keys, where the keys are only intended to be sold to actual human beings, with legal or otherwise cash bounties in place for people who can provide evidence of the keys being sold to or otherwise falling
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by _cjse 3y ago
I decided early on that wasting my one existence trying to solve a problem that seemed unsolvable wasn't what I wanted to do, especially given the stakes (it's very easy to reason yourself into working 14 hour days if you think it
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by _cjse 3y ago
Alignment is hard, maybe impossible. Implementing alignment is at least as hard, and might be much harder. Perhaps there is the option to just not build an AGI, safe or unsafe, in the first place. For one person, this is easy: Pick a differ
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by _cjse 3y ago
Well, you can police the entire world quite cheaply on this or any other scientific research program by using fine-insured bounties to do it. Whether it's a good idea is a different question. https://web.archive.org/w
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by _cjse 3y ago
>Oh wait…every hedge fund bro is already doing this. And most of them aren’t billionaires. The contra to this is some of them are billionaires, and therefore this strategy is working, but for just a few of them. >why would any one sys