Absolutely. IMO almost all of the risk for "evil torturer ASI" comes from a scenario in which a human directs an ASI. Without a doubt, there are thousands, possibly millions, of people alive right who would absolutely create hell, without hesitation, given the opportunity. You can tell because they....literally already do create hell on a smaller scale. Throwing acid on women's faces, burning people alive, raping children, orchestrating genocides, it's been part of human behavior for millennia. The only way we survive ASI is if these human desires are not allowed to influence the ASI.

An excellent description of a possible new world that, for a change, isn’t dystopian. I applaud you 👏 This is a world to strive for. If only most people of today weren’t as enamored with the „grind“…

I am pretty sure that once we have good education possibilities and no necessity for horrible, demeaning, useless „work“ in hierarchies that are ruled by those high in dark triad behavior, people would finally be able to contribute to society with their real talents and abilities. And maybe even rekindle their own empathy and prosocial behavior.

Thank you.

I knew you were cringe af man. I don't give a shit about whatever happened for centuries, get out of here with these "protections". I'll target whoever I want, free speech baby.

That makes sense.

to add to this bitchass complexity, the brain's activity is not just for us thinking and talking but it's regulating your lungs and heartbeat and plethora of noisy signals going on in there. i can imagine us toying with very specific regions of the brain for ignoring most of the noise. it's going to be a fascinating decade. all our dreams come true, both good ones and frightening ones.

I think its more "think the following 62 words in this text as fast as you can " i.e its people reading and the bci catching the words.

Can someone ban this joker? There is no point to this point but to attack other users with provocative nonsense. There is no argument made and it is not relevant to the subreddit.

There is no point in simulating every atom, you're right.

Also such an "always on atom level" Earth-simulating machine would be larger than Earth itself, which seems like a waste of resources.

I think he means the left side of the bell curve of intelligence among humans, not the political left, which isn't exactly known for loving arbitrary traditions.

>By the time people have made the shift, AI will take that over as well.

Yes, this is the new rat race. Someone posted elsewhere they had spent the last 3 months working on new AI projects which all became obsolete before they could finish.

I thought the same. Tried running it through OpenAI's detection tool but the post was too small.

That's an interesting question too. Alignment researchers like to talk about "X-risks" and "S-risks" but I don't see as much discussion on less extreme outcomes. A "steward" ASI might decide that it likes humanity, but needs to take control for our own good, and honestly it might not be wrong. Human civilization is doing a very mediocre job of providing justice, a fair market, and sustainable use of the earth's resources. Corruption is rampant even at the highest levels of government. We are absolutely just children playing with matches here, so even a completely friendly superintelligence might end up concluding that it must take over, or that the population needs to be reduced. Though it seems unlikely considering how much the carrying capacity has already been increased by technological progress. 100 years ago the global carrying capacity was probably 1/10 of what it is now.

“There was also the Argument of Increasing Decency, which basically held that cruelty was linked to stupidity and that the link between intelligence, imagination, empathy and good-behaviour-as-it-was-generally-understood – i.e. not being cruel to others – was as profound as these matters ever got.”

~Ian M. Banks

sticks and stones.

In curious too. When you're thinking, doesn't an entire sentence of internal dialogue flash through your mind in an instant? But then there are long periods with no internal dialogue in between. I wonder what it averages out to.

Totally agree, "history repeats itself" almost sounds like a fallacy (appeal to nature), presupposing some immanent order to things that would magically explain everything.

Most jobs are bullshit.

https://www.vox.com/2018/5/8/17308744/bullshit-jobs-book-david-graeber-occupy-wall-street-karl-marx

I studied 3D animation in college and this is a complete game changer. Something like this would take countless people and months to make and now the bulk of the work the AI is able to do in one day. Mind freaking blown!

no, I mean it if the studios that owned the movies did it themselves.

I think it is rather the majority of individuals just want to pursue other work or interests that they hope AI will provide in some manner directly or indirectly.

As to whether this will work out as some hope is certainly worthy of thought exploration, but I think the motives for most are not exactly as you have stated them.

Considering the DOE news this week, I'd say the eventual chance of someone intentionally creating a malicious superintelligence for "research purposes" and then accidentally letting it out is pretty high

You sound like some close to human level AI that is being trial run in some authoritarian dystopia. "Beep.Boop. It has come to my attention that certain number of humans in this subreddit are a certain way and that is against my programming. Beep. Boop."

History doesnt repeat itself anywhere near as much as the desperate old men trying to make sense of things like to believe.

Is this written by ChatGPT? Definitely sounds like it 😄

>the left side of the bell curve

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