AI can run on CPUs (with a certain inefficiency factor), so only burning all GPUs doesn’t seem like it would be sufficient. As for disruptive acts that are less deadly, it would be nice to have some examples but Eliezer says they’re too far out of the Overton Window to mention.
If what you’re saying about Eliezer’s claim is accurate, it does seem disingenuous to frame “The only worlds where humanity survives are ones where people like me do something extreme and unethical” as “I won’t do anything extreme and unethical [because humanity is doomed anyway]”. It makes Eliezer dangerous to be around if he’s mistaken, and if you’re significantly less pessimistic than he is (if you assign >10^-6 probability to humanity surviving), he’s mistaken in most of the worlds where humanity survives. Which are the worlds that matter the most.
And yeah, it’s nice that Eliezer claims that Eliezer can violate ethical injunctions because he’s smart enough, after repeatedly stating that people who violate ethical injunctions because they think they’re smart enough are almost always wrong. I don’t doubt he’ll pick the option that looks actually better to him. It’s just that he’s only human—he’s running on corrupted hardware like the rest of us.
AI can run on CPUs (with a certain inefficiency factor), so only burning all GPUs doesn’t seem like it would be sufficient. As for disruptive acts that are less deadly, it would be nice to have some examples but Eliezer says they’re too far out of the Overton Window to mention.
If what you’re saying about Eliezer’s claim is accurate, it does seem disingenuous to frame “The only worlds where humanity survives are ones where people like me do something extreme and unethical” as “I won’t do anything extreme and unethical [because humanity is doomed anyway]”. It makes Eliezer dangerous to be around if he’s mistaken, and if you’re significantly less pessimistic than he is (if you assign >10^-6 probability to humanity surviving), he’s mistaken in most of the worlds where humanity survives. Which are the worlds that matter the most.
And yeah, it’s nice that Eliezer claims that Eliezer can violate ethical injunctions because he’s smart enough, after repeatedly stating that people who violate ethical injunctions because they think they’re smart enough are almost always wrong. I don’t doubt he’ll pick the option that looks actually better to him. It’s just that he’s only human—he’s running on corrupted hardware like the rest of us.