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Re: Safe Superintelligence Inc.

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> Building safe superintelligence (SSI) is the most important technical problem of our time. Call me a cranky old man but the superlatives in these sorts of announcements really annoy me. I want to ask: Have you surveyed every problem in the world? Are you aware of how much suffering there is outside of your office and how unresponsive it has been so far to improvements in artificial intelligence? Are you really sayi…

exactly. and define safe. eg, is it safe (ie dereliction) to _not_ use ai to monitor dirty bomb threats? or more simple, CSAM?

Re: Safe Superintelligence Inc.

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post #125

> Building safe superintelligence (SSI) is the most important technical problem of our time. Call me a cranky old man but the superlatives in these sorts of announcements really annoy me. I want to ask: Have you surveyed every problem in the world? Are you aware of how much suffering there is outside of your office and how unresponsive it has been so far to improvements in artificial intelligence? Are you really sayi…

It certainly is the most important technical problem of our time, if we end up developing such a system.

That conditional makes all the difference.

Re: Safe Superintelligence Inc.

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post #125

> Building safe superintelligence (SSI) is the most important technical problem of our time. Call me a cranky old man but the superlatives in these sorts of announcements really annoy me. I want to ask: Have you surveyed every problem in the world? Are you aware of how much suffering there is outside of your office and how unresponsive it has been so far to improvements in artificial intelligence? Are you really sayi…

This all makes more sense when you realise it's Calvinism for programmers.
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