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mattparlmer 🪐 🌷
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Recursive selfimprovement overestimator
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The Times and The Sunday Times
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When he first started working with AI at Google he thought “We’re going to build amazing things that are going to change people’s lives” But then came the arm and the ball. “It completely froze me.” He saw where this was going “The reality is,” he says, “we’re creating God”
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mattparlmer 🪐 🌷
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We're not making a god, that is dumb and also rather lazy We're making an infinite number of precocious but extremely capable child wizards Much different problem/safeguards
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Also we're making these things for propagating more than just love and compassion, that's a fact that people are gonna have to get over Beyond the obvious nearterm military applications we're gonna want these things to be capable of defending us against more distant entities
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