This is a much less destructive-sounding pivotal act proposal than “melt all GPUs”. I’m trying to figure out why and if it’s actually less destructive...
Does it sound less destructive because it’s just hiding the destructive details behind the decisions of these best thinker simulations? After their, say, 100 subjective years of deliberation do the thinkers just end up with a detailed proposal for how to melt all GPUs”?
I think I give our best thinkers more credit than that. I wouldn’t presume to know in advance the plan that many copies of our best thinkers would come up with after having a long time to deliberate. But I have confidence or at least a hope that they’d come up with something less destructive and at least as effective as “melt all GPUs”.
So this pivotal act proposal puts some distance between us and the messier details of the act. But it does it in a reasonable way, not just by hand-waving or forgetting those details, but instead by deferring them to people who we would most trust to handle them well (many of the best thinkers in the world, overclocked!)
This is an intriguing proposal and because it certainly sounds so much less destructive and horrifying than “melt all GPUs”, I will very much prefer to use and see this used as the go-to theoretical example of a pivotal act until I hear of or think of a better one.
This is a much less destructive-sounding pivotal act proposal than “melt all GPUs”. I’m trying to figure out why and if it’s actually less destructive...
Does it sound less destructive because it’s just hiding the destructive details behind the decisions of these best thinker simulations? After their, say, 100 subjective years of deliberation do the thinkers just end up with a detailed proposal for how to melt all GPUs”?
I think I give our best thinkers more credit than that. I wouldn’t presume to know in advance the plan that many copies of our best thinkers would come up with after having a long time to deliberate. But I have confidence or at least a hope that they’d come up with something less destructive and at least as effective as “melt all GPUs”.
So this pivotal act proposal puts some distance between us and the messier details of the act. But it does it in a reasonable way, not just by hand-waving or forgetting those details, but instead by deferring them to people who we would most trust to handle them well (many of the best thinkers in the world, overclocked!)
This is an intriguing proposal and because it certainly sounds so much less destructive and horrifying than “melt all GPUs”, I will very much prefer to use and see this used as the go-to theoretical example of a pivotal act until I hear of or think of a better one.