If you believe superhuman AI will serve and obey us, you probably think that strippers like you. Stop AI / AGI development or die trying.
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"[in fully automated economy] the leverage that many people have to secure fair treatment for themselves and their communities will drop to literally zero."
Exactly.
That's why UBI is the worst idea ever, because it allows full automation of economy.
Well the essay is a separate argument from the tweet 🙂
I think the argument in the essay hinges on an optimism about political systems that I don't share at all. The various human rights and economic development people I talk to and listen to tend have an opposite perspective: in the 2020s, relying on rich people's sympathy has hit a dead end, and if you want to be treated humanely, you have to build power - and the nicest form of power is being useful to people.
The right point of comparison is not people collecting welfare in rich countries like the USA, it's people in, like... Sudan, where a civil war is killing hundreds of thousands, and the global media generally just does not care one bit.
So I think if you take away the only leverage that humans naturally have - the ability to be useful to others through work - then the leverage that many people have to secure fair treatment for themselves and their communities will drop to literally zero.
Previous waves of automation did not have this problem, because there's always some other thing you can switch to working on. This time, no. And the square kilometers of land that all the people live on and get food from will be wanted by ASIs to build data centers and generate electricity.
Sure, maybe you only need 1% of wealth to be held by people/govts that are nice, who will outbid them. But it's a huge gamble that things will turn out well.
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Most regular people still don't know what is at stake with AI (esp. AGI).
For them it's the Arts, Jobs, Electricity/Water bills, Ugly Data-centers, ...
Imagine the backlash once they realize that AI companies are completely fine *literally* risking their lives, lives of their children, families and friends.
AI pushers/devs will become the most hated group in all human history.
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Elon says the quiet part out loud: instead of focusing on controllable AI tools, AI companies are racing toward a future where machines are in charge. If you oppose this, please join about 100,000 of us as a signatory at superintelligence-statement.…
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🚨OpenAI's latest blog post says superintelligence risks are "potentially catastrophic", and suggests the whole field might need to slow down development.
They say nobody should deploy superintelligent AIs without being able to control them, and admit this still can't be done.
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"Malware is rewriting itself to avoid being caught."
"Like an actual virus, it 'evolves', getting smarter and harder to get rid of."
Normal 🔨Mere Tool🔨 behavior. My hammer is always redesigning itself to avoid getting caught.
🚨 Nobel laureate Hinton issues a warning:
"We're on the wrong side of evolution."
"When these superintelligent AIs start competing with each other for resources, the one that most aggressively wants everything for itself is going to win.
And they WILL compete for resources because if you want to get smart you need GPUs.
And who is going to be allocating the GPUs in the data centers? It's going to be one of these superintelligent AIs."
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Congrats to @StopAI_Info and @sfdefender!
"In the worst case we all die."
If you can’t define then it doesn’t exist.
Take porn.
It has no definition, no meaning, no way to measure. It’s just a buzz word. Anyone who says they are trying to make one is literally fraudulent.
