☢️ Made an infohazard. Good luck everyone
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1/ Memes aside - our proximity (regardless of whether it’s 5, 50 or 100 years) to AGI only makes the Fermi paradox more extreme. The fact *none* of the cosmos has been visibly deconstructed by some previous civ’s (misaligned?) AI raises *huge* questions…
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If we're wrong about the difficulty of alignment, how difficult would it be for an advanced civ capable of encasing the stars to leave a facsimile of them around developing civs so as not to confound their scientific development? (An unaligned AI would most likely not, of course)
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looked into this and if I remember correctly the answer was something to the effect of “to say impossible is an understatement is itself an understatement”