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by Hruss
18th Mar 2025
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[-]Hruss3mo20

On YouTube, @Evbo’s parkour civilization and PVP civilization drama movies, professionally produced, set in Minecraft, and half-parody of YA dystopia serves as a surprisingly good demonstration of Instrumental Convergence (the protagonist kills or bribes most people they meet to “rank up” in the beginning), and non-human morality (the characters basically only care about the Minecraft activity of their series, without a hint of irony).

 I think using existing non-AI media as an analogy for AI could be helpful, because people think that a terminator-like ASI would be robots shooting people, one of the reasons why a common suggestion for unaligned AI is to just turn it off, pour water on the servers, etc.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/@Evbo

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[-]Hruss6mo10

A strategy I have found to be extremely effective for getting your ideas used is to attribute them to others. Then, you can start a disagreement over a minor part of the idea, so people will want to use their slightly varied version. Note that this will only work when others care about the project, and you are fine with not “owning” the ideas you come up with.

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