Melting all the GPUs and then shutting down doesn’t actually count, I think (and I don’t think was intended to be the original example). Then people would just build more GPUs. It’s an important part of the problem that the system continues to melt all GPUs (at least until some better situation is achieved), and that the part where the world is like “hey, holy hell, I was using those GPUs” and tries to stop the system, is somehow resolved (either by having world governments bought into the solution, or having the system be very resistant to being stopped).
(Notably, you do eventually need to be able to stop the system somehow when you do know how to build aligned AIs so you don’t lose all most of the value of the future)
Melting all the GPUs and then shutting down doesn’t actually count, I think (and I don’t think was intended to be the original example). Then people would just build more GPUs. It’s an important part of the problem that the system continues to melt all GPUs (at least until some better situation is achieved), and that the part where the world is like “hey, holy hell, I was using those GPUs” and tries to stop the system, is somehow resolved (either by having world governments bought into the solution, or having the system be very resistant to being stopped).
(Notably, you do eventually need to be able to stop the system somehow when you do know how to build aligned AIs so you don’t lose all most of the value of the future)
Yeah, good point.