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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!"

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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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It could just as easily turn out that an AI is perfectly content to build its own VR universe, leaving us to do our thing.

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I mean we've already got AI self-optimizing itself and writing its own code. If you know algos work, you know that can go weird.

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Yeah that's ~ what I'm thinking. "We are creating an intelligence far more sophisticated than us, so it will work like this." Uh, no

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Well, we'll see. It isn't yet. Human brains/bodies are very complicated. And there may be other considerations.

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We can't even do basic math right half the time, but we can do things that seem computationally impossible, so...

2:09 PM · Mar 5, 2017Twitter Web Client

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It's startling, under meditative introspection, to discover how stupid, conditioned and on-rails one is.