I see you have one positive vote already. Lizardman, efilist, or just someone mistaking their depression for the state of the world outside themselves?
I thought that (2-5) made the question too “nice” and made a similar poll.
“Would you release a superintelligence that you know will immediately destroy all life, before falling inert itself, leaving an utterly dead planet?”
“The superintelligence is not alive or conscious and its incomprehensible goals result in the destruction of everything whose atoms it has a use for as it proliferates over the face of the Earth, including all life everywhere on the planet, after which it falls inert. The process may take days or it may take years but there is nothing that anyone can do to stop or even slow down the destruction. There will be untold suffering during the process but at the end the Earth will be silent, devoid of life forever. Do you release it?”
I voted No, but I don’t think there is anything wrong with pushing the button. The “gods-eye” view of utility is simply wrong (or incoherent) and it’s what causes most of the utility paradoxes. No one experiences not existing after pressing the button, so no harm done.
[Edit] I should qualify that voting Yes on this question could potentially do harm. So if you’re going to press the button, better to do it silently.
I see you have one positive vote already. Lizardman, efilist, or just someone mistaking their depression for the state of the world outside themselves?
I thought that (2-5) made the question too “nice” and made a similar poll.
“Would you release a superintelligence that you know will immediately destroy all life, before falling inert itself, leaving an utterly dead planet?”
“The superintelligence is not alive or conscious and its incomprehensible goals result in the destruction of everything whose atoms it has a use for as it proliferates over the face of the Earth, including all life everywhere on the planet, after which it falls inert. The process may take days or it may take years but there is nothing that anyone can do to stop or even slow down the destruction. There will be untold suffering during the process but at the end the Earth will be silent, devoid of life forever. Do you release it?”
ETA 2024 Aug 02 21:38 UTC+1: Yes 2, No 3.
I voted No, but I don’t think there is anything wrong with pushing the button. The “gods-eye” view of utility is simply wrong (or incoherent) and it’s what causes most of the utility paradoxes. No one experiences not existing after pressing the button, so no harm done.
[Edit] I should qualify that voting Yes on this question could potentially do harm. So if you’re going to press the button, better to do it silently.
Damn, we did not last even 24hrs…
Thanks for the alternative poll. One would think that with rules 2 and 5 out of the way it should be harder to say Yes.