Q: “Why couldn’t we just shut off a computer if it got too powerful?” A: “A smart AI could predict that we’d want to turn it off if it made us nervous. So it would try hard not to make us nervous, because doing so wouldn’t help it accomplish its goals” https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2018/12/21/18126576/ai-artificial-intelligence-machine-learning-safety-alignment …
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Evolution doesn't favor complex organisms. Complex organisms just happened to occupy a niche in the biosphere.
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IIRC Nick Bostrom covers this topic in reasonable detail in his book Superintelligence. Good reference.
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Viruses cannot exist without a (more complex) host organism.
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I agree, a microbial goo would have been a more accurate metaphor. (Your idea that an AGI race might be won by a low complexity solution is not implausible, and was explored by Lem 1988: Peace on Earth. I suspect that low complexity dominance might be only a local optimum.)
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What do you mean? I am viral goo
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