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I am disappointed that I have to write this. It is deeply embarrassing that the thing I am writing about has gone on for so long, that so...

This is less related to actually existing “AI” and more about one of the myths (or, ultimately, the constellation of myths) that drives people to work on “AI.” I posted this on Mastodon, but it probably belongs here as well.

  • smiletolerantly@awful.systems
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    13 days ago

    Hah, nice read.

    It’s always been wild to me how the idea of “a future AI threatens incredible suffering if you don’t help it come into existence” sparks “oh, then I better help create the torture-AI” in people, rather than “what the fuck, that’s evil and cruel, let’s make sure this doesn’t come to pass”.

    But of course, the Rolo folks start from the notion that this AI is 100% inevitable, at which point… There’s no need to sadistically torture people.

    In the same vein as “God can’t be all-powerful and all-good”:

    The AGI either doesn’t exist, or has no need to torture people.