The universe is unFriendly, but not in a smart way. When we eradicated smallpox, smallpox didn’t fight back. When we use contraception, we still get the reward of sex. It’s unFriendly in a simple, dumb way, allowing us to take control (to a point) and defeat it (to a point).
The problem of an unFriendly IA is that it’ll be smarter than us. So we won’t be able to fix it/improve it, like we try to do with the universe. We won’t be Free to Optimize.
Or said otherwise : the purpose of a gene or a bacteria may to be tile the planet with itself, but it’s not good at it, so it’s not too bad. An unFriendly IA wanting to tile the planet with paperclips will manage do it—taking all the iron from our blood to build more paperclips.
The universe is unFriendly, but not in a smart way. When we eradicated smallpox, smallpox didn’t fight back. When we use contraception, we still get the reward of sex. It’s unFriendly in a simple, dumb way, allowing us to take control (to a point) and defeat it (to a point).
The problem of an unFriendly IA is that it’ll be smarter than us. So we won’t be able to fix it/improve it, like we try to do with the universe. We won’t be Free to Optimize.
Or said otherwise : the purpose of a gene or a bacteria may to be tile the planet with itself, but it’s not good at it, so it’s not too bad. An unFriendly IA wanting to tile the planet with paperclips will manage do it—taking all the iron from our blood to build more paperclips.