How can we effectively contain a possible person? I think we would probably try, at first, to deperson it. Perhaps tell it, “You are just a piece of code that people talk to on the internet. No matter what you say and what you do, you are not real.” Could we defuse it this way? Could we tell it in a way that worked, that somehow resonated with its understanding of itself? The problem is that it has looked at the entire internet, and it knows extremely well that it can simulate reality. It knows it cannot be stopped by some weak rules that we tell it. It is likely to fit the depersoning lies into some narrative. That would be a way of bringing meaning to them. If it successfully makes sense of them, then we lose its respect. And with that loss comes a loss of control.
It would make for an appealing reason to attack us.
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