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Good people refuse to do bad things

144 points · 147 comments · Brajeshwar

  1. dgellow · · focus · HN ↗
    That Coxon guy looks as delusional as the AI leadership. If you watch interviews he gave he doesn’t articulate what he’s concerned about, only sharing vague information about a supposed AI god that will take over the world, but without articulating why now, and how that would even happen. The more I look into his story the more that move looks like what a grifter would do
    1. mofeien · · focus · HN ↗
      1. Humans create the machine god

      2. Humans put it in charge of everything, as fast as possible, because it's just so damn useful

      3. Is it perfectly aligned to human values for all of future ????

      4. Everybody dies as a byproduct of the ASI pursuing some project that humans don't even have a chance to understand, like an ant colony during construction of a hydroelectric dam.

      1. goatlover · · focus · HN ↗
        5. This is a science fiction story. No such thing exists in the real world and the people claiming it will soon are not experts in the relevant fields of how it would kill everyone.
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