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Is AI the Paperclip?

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40 points by headalgorithm 2 months ago · 7 comments

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thebeardisred 2 months ago

I'm amazed no one has linked the game version - https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html

moomin 2 months ago

Charlie Stross gives a great talk about Slow AI in which he argues that you don’t actually need a computer to build a paperclip oprimiser, and money is already a great paperclip.

facemelt2 2 months ago

>Are we not madly harvesting the world’s resources in a monomaniacal attempt to optimize artificial intelligence?

No, we are not madly harvesting the world's resources in a monomaniacal attempt to optimize artificial intelligence. We are, however, harvesting the world's resources in an attempt to optimize artificial intelligence.

saulpw 2 months ago

Money is the paperclip.

bananaflag 2 months ago

Of course.

You don't need any "weird" goal like paperclips. You just need the basic goals of survival and expansion that every species posesses (implicitly) to understand why a superintelligence is a danger.

  • gom_jabbar 2 months ago

    Instrumental convergence is final convergence (w/o final goal divergence following instrumental convergence as assumed by Bostrom).

gentleman11 2 months ago

Honestly, after thinking about it, i guess it will be

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