I apologize for coming off scornful, the last thing I read before replying was “WTF kind of logic is this” and I kinda said, ok, that’s the tone on this sub-thread. I’ll watch my snark but I’ll also admonish you to only take the vibe places you want to go.
My whole premise is that it doesn’t have better than human intelligence. Everyone glosses over how we go from ChatGPT 4 failing its own unit tests to geometrically self-improving hyper-intelligence.
The burden is not on skeptics of paperclip optimizers in the near term to prove it can’t happen. That which is not prohibited by the laws of physics is admitted by the laws of physics. Of course it’s possible in the abstract.
The burden on anyone advocating positions being taken seriously by the public, by government, by industry, etc. to show that these arguments are in the public welfare, and I contend that they are not.
My whole premise is that it doesn’t have better than human intelligence. Everyone glosses over how we go from ChatGPT 4 failing its own unit tests to geometrically self-improving hyper-intelligence.
The burden is not on skeptics of paperclip optimizers in the near term to prove it can’t happen. That which is not prohibited by the laws of physics is admitted by the laws of physics. Of course it’s possible in the abstract.
The burden on anyone advocating positions being taken seriously by the public, by government, by industry, etc. to show that these arguments are in the public welfare, and I contend that they are not.