No, we don't.
The western world shouldn't even put it on pause. China/Ru will not. Better be prepared.
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#262I want to say that I completely endorse this. The whole thing in all its details.
I don't have any reputation to sacrifice, and I don't expect my endorsement to convince anyone, but I want to set a precedent that it's ok to believe this.
It's true, as far as I can see. And I've been thinking about this for something like fifteen years.
And if other people who think it's true are ashamed to say it out loud, then I want to let them know that at least one other person on the planet has said so too.
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#263Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's humanizing it. The only entity on this earth that's particularly keen on bulk killing humans is humans (the ones building this).
"The AI does not love you, nor hate you, but you are made of atoms it can use for something else"
What use does it have for use
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#264Re: Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut It All Down
#265Pausing nuclear bomb development isn't enough. We need to shut it all down.
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#266If anyone can't get the article, this one is by Eliezer Yudkowsky. He has pretty much devoted his life to thinking about how to not let AI get powerful and destroy all humans, and now there is this wild race among the largest corporations and possibly governments to be the first to get the most powerful superhuman AI system. Obviously he is disturbed by such a development.
and possibly terrorist organizations, cartels, hacker gangs or just a lone wacko.
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#267No, we don't. The western world shouldn't even put it on pause. China/Ru will not. Better be prepared.
China is already ahead. They have robots wandering the streets catching unmasked people for C---t's sake.
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#268Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think it's fair to say that he is not an Orthodox Jew.
Not that there's anything wrong with that. I worry more about Christian "end times" people because if you believe the world is about to end then why invest in the future for our children and grandchildren?
Back in the day when Eliezer was optimistic about AI (there's a reason why the SIAI/MIRI logo looks like an angel), I wrote him a very silly e-mail warning him that, despite being Jewish, he was falling for the Christian rapture narrative in a new form!
It seemed to me that his ideas, which I think are all correct, straightforwardly implied the destruction of all things, with very little hope.
I bite that bullet, and I always have.
Over the years, Eliezer has lost all hope, and things have happened much faster than either of us thought they would, and now he's making one final roll of the dice, burning his reputation by saying out loud what he thinks, in the hope that someone might listen.
I'd be very surprised if he thinks this will work. He's trying to get a warning out to the general population, in spite of this meaning that no one inside AI will ever trust him again. He thinks it no longer matters.
Me too.
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#269No, we don't. The western world shouldn't even put it on pause. China/Ru will not. Better be prepared.
Thats the thinking that lead to the development of the nuclear bomb.
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#270Earlier quoted context omitted.
In the same sense as a Sinclair ZX80 was.
GPT-4 can tell you where you’re wrong, Sinclair ZX80 cannot.
GPT-4 is an unreasonably effective autocomplete. It's not telling you "where you're wrong". CMD-F in Notes.app tells mhe where I'm wrong in the same sense, as long as I've written the right answer down before.