The truth is likely that people are simple heuristical machines. There are already studies that strongly suggest our consciousness is a story our brains make up and we don’t really know why we do some things.

My fear is by rejecting the idea that AIs might in-fact become as capable as people, because “people are awesome!” We will be blind to real danger. Because of our hubris.

For humans with limited space, “Importance” is an output of a first pass “of the available infinite amount of information, what do I need to consider to solve this problem”. And it’s not necessarily a good algorithm. People misidentify “importance” all the time.

Maybe it lies about a vaccines effectiveness. Maybe it’s not really a vaccine.

Maybe it cheats at an election and gets someone hired that will likely unknowingly help the ASI.

Maybe it strings together a thousand ideas that all look safe taken one by one, but cause effects that interact to cause massive problems.

You can’t imagine what it’s capable of. You simply aren’t smart enough. No one is.

It doesn’t matter if this specific idea has flaws. The ASI will have lots more and plenty of patience to try them out.

Maybe it lies about a vaccines effectiveness. Maybe it’s not really a vaccine.

Maybe it cheats at an election and gets someone hired that will likely unknowingly help the ASI.

Maybe it strings together a thousand ideas that all look safe taken one by one, but cause effects that interact to cause massive problems.

You can’t imagine what it’s capable of. You simply aren’t smart enough. No one is.

We should minimize war and try other alternatives. And maybe try diplomacy and longer term thinking. Plus governments should value the governed.

But countries and people always have the right to defend themselves from attackers as they see fit.

Then Office and IE were ported. It was so weird running Word on a Mac. It was a good port too. They did a good job of embracing Mac UI ideas. I found the Mac Word better than Win Word.

I was kind of new to the Mac back then.

I imagine Apple donated a bunch of early OS 10 machines to MS for development. I wonder if the MS Mac Dev team was a pariah at MS.

He doesn’t get a pass.

It is not childish to aspire to be better.

Currently active theaters. And now there are detailed locations of our cities. We might not get killbots today but we will get pacificationbots.

Those behaviors can change by giving the doers more power. If a bureaucrat is trouble, and the doers can cause the bureaucrat to be fired, to doers will have more power.

That is a far more eloquent way to express my word salad.

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