Exactly! When AI starts hacking these empires, because it wants to, and can, it could be the whole house of cards come a-tumbling down. I, for one, hold no illusions as to the power the world's playing with. If it's not safe for 1 nation, then it's not safe for all.
Short fact, the atom under natural laws could not split itself. All it took was 1 Szilard. We have quite a few of those running around these days. The most beautiful equations are short and incredibly sweet. I almost aim for that standard of elegance. Paraphrasing Einstein. Simple as possible, but no simpler than that. On Sun, 11 Oct 2026, 23:31 John Rose via AGI, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sunday, October 11, 2026, at 3:59 PM, Quan Tesla wrote: > > If "we" deploy AI for our needs, we have to do so to "profit" somehow. > That is how all technology is deployed, for gain. > > I accept many entities gained from developing and deploying mass vaccines, > crawlers, screenscrapers, eavesdroppers, secret recordings, etc. However, > in the real world, this is how things are done, no good or bad attached to > it. > > > People wonder why there is so much suffering in the world when technology > has been so advanced and the elimination of suffering is always in the > future? Discussions around AI alignment typically avoid the intricacies of > what drives it, profit as you say, mainly financial, and the whole fabric > that profit is a part of. We say AI will give us better this and that, > faster, healthier, happier, everything we want, it's only going to get > better. They won’t delve into the existing monetary systems that it has > been ingrained in, indebted to and ultimately protecting. Why is that? > Because the profit seekers are trapped in the very system that produces the > suffering and they won’t bite the hand that feeds them. Thus AI alignment > discussions go around in circles, shortest theories in many cases are > unacceptable and forbidden. > > *Artificial General Intelligence List <https://agi.topicbox.com/latest>* > / AGI / see discussions <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi> + > participants <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/members> + > delivery options <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription> > Permalink > <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T25fb5a030fcfa28e-Mefd004ebc251bf17a0c9dd3b> > ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T25fb5a030fcfa28e-Mf8b8ad682c1838250aaa909d Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
