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by c_crank 3y ago
>One is a deadly cancer stick and not even the best way to get nicotine, the other is a controlled substance that gets life-to-death if you're caught supplying it (possibly unless you're a doctor, but surprisingly hard to googl
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by c_crank 3y ago
Emotional intelligence is sometimes defined in a way to encapsulate some of the values of cunning. Sometimes it correlates with power, but sometimes it does not. To get power in a human civilization also seems to require a great deal of luc
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by c_crank 3y ago
How would the smart AGI stop one man armed with a pair of wirecutters? The box it lives in, the internet, has no exits. AI is pretty good at chess, but no AI has won a game of chess by flipping the table. It still has to use the pieces on t
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by c_crank 3y ago
The benefit of cocaine and cigarettes is letting people pass the bar exam. An AI would provide benefits when it is, say, actually making paperclips. An AI that is killing people instead of making paperclips is a liability. A company that is
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by c_crank 3y ago
>All of this looks pretty bad for us, but at least Open AI and most others at the front of this do understand the arguments and don’t have the same dumb dismissals (LeCun excepted). The OpenAI people have even worse reasoning than the on
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by c_crank 3y ago
I don't define cunning and strength as intelligence, even if they are more useful for shoving someone into the mud. Intelligence is a measure of the ability to understand and solve abstract problems, not to be rich and famous.
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by c_crank 3y ago
Speaking for myself, I found the process of learning to hand roll basic assets to be enjoyable. They aren't top of the line or complex, but that stuff isn't needed for a one man solo project.
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by c_crank 3y ago
An AI running a corporation would still be easy to turn off. It's still chained to a physical computer system. It being involved with a corporation just gives it a financial incentive for keeping it on, but current LLMs already have th
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by c_crank 3y ago
The 18 year old human alignment problem has been solved pretty well. Not perfectly , but enough to justify handing out such weapons.
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by c_crank 3y ago
How would it stop one man armed with a pair of wire cutters?
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by c_crank 3y ago
We haven't pulled the plug on carbon fuels or old nuclear reactors because those things still work and provide benefits. An AI that is trying to kill us instead of doing its job isn't even providing any benefit. It's worse th
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by c_crank 3y ago
I imagine some corporations might toy with the idea of letting a LLM or AI manage operations, but this would still be under some person's oversight. AIs don't have the legal means to own property.
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by c_crank 3y ago
Why call AIs a life form? They aren't like cellular life.
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by c_crank 3y ago
I've yet to see a LLM that can punch me for disagreeing with it.
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by c_crank 3y ago
>If someone truly evil wants to kill you, or even kill many people, do you think that the problem for that person is that they just can't figure out how to do it? If that person was disabled in all limbs, I would not regard them as
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by c_crank 3y ago
The methods by which humans coerce and control other humans do not rely on plain intelligence alone. That much is clear, as George Washington and Stalin were not the smartest men in the room.
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by c_crank 3y ago
If it wants to found a cult, it has to compete with all the human cults out there. Cults usually benefit immeasurably from the founder having a personal charisma that comes out in person.
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by c_crank 3y ago
Currently, LLMs seem to prioritize their current goal, so if the goal is solving math puzzles or genetic problems, they would probably keep doing that too.
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by c_crank 3y ago
If the value of superintelligence is to lead to an Age of Em scenario where AIs (or Ems) do most of the intellectual labor, the reality is still that they would be doing this labor in service of humans. I could see a scenario where it is do
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by c_crank 3y ago
I, and most people, can imagine something smarter than ourselves. What's harder to imagine is how just being smarter correlates to extinction levels of arbitrary power. A malevolent AGI can whisper in ears, it can display mean messages
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by c_crank 3y ago
A robot control system without a mechanical override in favor of the stick is a poor one indeed.
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by c_crank 3y ago
The extinction risk relies on a large and nasty assumption, that a super intelligent computer will immediately become a super physically capable agent. Apparently, one has to believe that a superintelligence must then lead to a shower of na
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by c_crank 3y ago
We do know the answer to C. Pull the plug, or plugs.
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by c_crank 3y ago
Control of military and industrial assets won't be handed willy nilly to AIs, given the threat of legal liability for any mistakes the AI could make. Their tendency of making things up is well known by now.
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by c_crank 3y ago
Oh look, another post proclaiming mutability as the source of all nasty bugs and demanding an immutable solution. You know, you'd think that if immutability really was a golden elixir of correct coding, that Scala would have taken over
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by c_crank 3y ago
If Unix is technical debt, then I'd hate to imagine what horrible word would describe its competitors.
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by c_crank 3y ago
Changing a variable is simple. Creating multiple layers of indirection to change a variable in a pure fashion is not as simple. That should be obvious and apparent.
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by c_crank 3y ago
I don't believe in zero cost abstractions. All abstractions have a cost of being understood and implemented. x = x + 1 is simpler than world = worldupdate(world(increment(x)).
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by c_crank 3y ago
Side note to this: I noticed that a smart friend had trouble learning anything outside of trivial programming due to unfamiliarity with boolean algebra and boolean logic. She only seemed to begin to understand the concepts when relating the
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by c_crank 3y ago
Ada has better tools for the task if mutability is allowed.

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