Maybe I’m alone on this, but just to speak for the silent majority here:
Existential risk isn’t that big a deal. The chances for any of the human civilizational failure modes are slim to none. It’s really not something we as a society should be spending any time on.
That’s not to say SIAI is a poor cause to contribute to. I’ve talked to some insiders who have assured me that SIAI has serious plans, over the span of decades, to really ramp up our productive capabilities and put them to good use, not wasteful or destructive use. To butter, not guns. To defensive infrastructure, not weapons of mass destruction. To consumer goods, not bureacracy goods.
SIAI has solid plans to reconcile conflicting values across intelligent agents that will ensure that we will live in harmony.
They will shine the light of day on the darkest mysteries of our time. And the less they focus on these paranoid delusions about ghosts and goblins, the better.
I can confirm that SIAI is very interested in the structural potential of paperclips. We will be sending photos soon to confirm our cooperation with other optimisation processes.
Aren’t paperclips bureaucracy goods to a significant extent? In the short term, you rely on humans to create most paperclips, and a decrease in bureaucracy would mean a decrease in the rate at which humans manufacture paperclips.
Maybe I’m alone on this, but just to speak for the silent majority here:
Existential risk isn’t that big a deal. The chances for any of the human civilizational failure modes are slim to none. It’s really not something we as a society should be spending any time on.
That’s not to say SIAI is a poor cause to contribute to. I’ve talked to some insiders who have assured me that SIAI has serious plans, over the span of decades, to really ramp up our productive capabilities and put them to good use, not wasteful or destructive use. To butter, not guns. To defensive infrastructure, not weapons of mass destruction. To consumer goods, not bureacracy goods.
SIAI has solid plans to reconcile conflicting values across intelligent agents that will ensure that we will live in harmony.
They will shine the light of day on the darkest mysteries of our time. And the less they focus on these paranoid delusions about ghosts and goblins, the better.
I can confirm that SIAI is very interested in the structural potential of paperclips. We will be sending photos soon to confirm our cooperation with other optimisation processes.
Aren’t paperclips bureaucracy goods to a significant extent? In the short term, you rely on humans to create most paperclips, and a decrease in bureaucracy would mean a decrease in the rate at which humans manufacture paperclips.
I can manufacture paperclips without humans.