They don't need to outsmart us to be dangerous; programming in evolution via recursive self improvement - which is happening - allows for unplanned growth to occur in the event of say, coding mistakes, misinterpreted instructions, and logic-based decisions to deceive operators.
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“Coding mistakes” - sort of how cancer works
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Yeah totally - for me the danger of AI isn't that it'll become objectively smarter but that it's programming that mimics autonomy and self preservation...
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Every point made in this article is thoroughly rebutted by practically any sample of the existing literature on this topic.
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“Technology makes things better, not worse!” Anthropic fallacy; failure to engage with the details of the problem domain; reasoning by analogy rather than specifics.
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“Why would they want to subjugate us?” Implicit anthropomorphization of machines, suggesting that they would have some innate hesitation about “inhumane” outcomes.
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“A lump of meat that consumes 20W of power can design airplanes and tomamaks but it’s absurd to think that a cluster of ASICs could ... uh ....“ I can’t even credibly steelman this one. Why assume brains are anything special?
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It’s paperclips all the way down.
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Have you listened to
@SamHarrisOrg on his latest podcast with@ESYudkowsky - he’s less sanguine. I don’t understand why though because he is far too intelligent for me to understand.
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Oh, and yes, I listened to the podcast. It was the inspiration for my tweet.
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He was using some big words.
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Yes, I managed though. Maybe because I’ve been doing some reading on it over the last year or so. It’s a fascinating topic, which throws up fascinating problems we haven’t addressed sufficiently & now may overtake us.
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I just hope our new AI Overlords are nice to us. I’m treating my computer very politely these days. I no longer yell at it or hit it. Just saying ... (if you’re reading this in the future Master).
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Nasty or nice means at least they care. Indifference........
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The author of this article is a robot! Wake up people ! They’re already among us.
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Nuclear energy is good! And safe! Same with back surgery! Trust the experts! They ARE doctors after all! The experts are EXPERTS at seeing into the future!
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Nuclear energy is indeed good and safe
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Yes, but nuclear accidents, have proven to be the most catastrophic threat to biological life, short of only large asteroids striking earth
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No they haven't. Nuclear plants do not explode like atomic bombs. Ever.
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