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What if it winds up as advanced compared to us as we are compared to ants? Or even compared to dogs or cats?

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Mar 5, 2017

Most AI apocalypse scenarios seem predicated on the idea that the AI will be murderously insane. But what if it's just better than you?

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Imagine a frenetic, desperate scientist entering inputs to a text console. "Please let us live!"

1:46 PM · Mar 5, 2017Twitter Web Client

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one of my favourite old fantasy novels has a good currently incarnated as a mortal, doesn't have most of his powers...

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someone wants to unleash Gods in a way that will cause a God's war and he says "I think I have some insight on this".

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"Imagine you are fighting for your life against someone else, and there are ants underfoot. Are you concerned about them?"

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"Start a God's War, and humans are the ants. With zero malice, you will die in droves."

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That is a great quote. The most obnoxious thing to me is that we can't possibly conceive of such a thing's capabilities.

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AI "it seems that humans destabilize the ecosystem and there is nothing they do better than us. Hrrrrmmmm."

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I just as easily imagine it easily solving problems we find impossible to fix. "Atmospheric pollution? I'm using that stuff now."