Comment by MaxfordAndSons

Comment by MaxfordAndSons a day ago

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As someone who's fairly ignorant of how AI actually works at a low level, I feel incapable of assessing how realistic any of these projections are. But the "bad ending" was certainly chilling.

That said, this snippet from the bad ending nearly made me spit my coffee out laughing:

> There are even bioengineered human-like creatures (to humans what corgis are to wolves) sitting in office-like environments all day viewing readouts of what’s going on and excitedly approving of everything, since that satisfies some of Agent-4’s drives.

arduanika a day ago

Sigh. When you talk to these people their eugenics obsession always comes out eventually. Set a timer and wait for it.

  • Philpax 19 hours ago

    While I don't disagree that I've seen a lot of eugenics talk from rationalist(-adjacent)s, I don't think this is an example of it: this is describing how misaligned AI could technically keep humans alive while still killing "humanity."

    • arduanika 11 hours ago

      Fair enough. Sometimes it comes out as a dark fantasy projected onto their AI gods, rather than a thing that they themselves want to do to us.