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Correct me if i misread, but if I understand, these are incredibly bad ideas which would backfire spectacularly, aren't they?
This comment has almost zero information. Do you actually want a discussion or is this a "boo, go away" comment?
sponsoring cyberattacks will lead to blowback that more than defeats the purpose.
starting a religion will lead to blowback that more than defeats the purpose.
if you're at the level where you think these are great ideas to suggest, then you need to be at the level where it's obvious to you why both are dead ends. it's the same reason in both cases: there are enormous groups you're attacking by either approach. generally speaking, groups don't like being attacked, and will attack you back, which usually undoes the benefit of attacking.
in particular, starting a war over AI seems likely to simply lead to AI being pushed into use for military use much more rapidly.
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thereby destroying privacy of every person on Earth with no exceptions. I am supportive of this
it might be possible that there are aliens out there somewhere with no privacy between any of them, who live in a utopia of some sort. also possibly some aliens somewhere else with no privacy who live in the ultimate dystopia. here on earth, there are a lot of hominids who really don't like some other hominids. sudden loss of privacy would likely result in mass death of some sort, when some sort of war gets started as a response; if not, then loss of freedom is still plausible. sudden loss of privacy would be catastrophic and would cause so much chaos and damage that it's effectively impossible to have even a vague sense of whether it'd end up stabilizing on a good world after the easily predictable hell it would create at the beginning. there are certainly many bad things people do that it would make public, but if everyone knows the terrible stuff at once, is that even negative for people who do bad things? and what about how malicious people would use it to attack pacifist targets?
Anyone wanna set up prediction markets on any of the claims here? I wanna be able to claim some fake internet points if I later get proven right.
Happy to get in the first one!
I think rousing the hoi polloi would be counterproductive. They’re a force you cannot align. Like the sorceror’s apprentice animating a broomstick to help carry water, once called up, you cannot tell them to stop.
They’re a force you cannot align. Like the sorceror’s apprentice animating a broomstick to help carry water, once called up, you cannot tell them to stop.
I agree the public is not going to take orders from you, on what they should think or do. You need to use persuasion like everyone else. I agree people will also do lots of counterproductive and unproductive things in response to info about AI risk.
I think we haven't found the crux yet.
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