On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 5:07 PM Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote:

*> Imagine that Dario Amodei didn't tell us about a computer in his
> basement that had ASI and Amodei just used it to pretend he was the
> super-intelligent being.  Would that be a catastrophe?  Why or why not?*
>

*If Dario Amodei had an entire country of super geniuses locked up in his
basement I don't know if it would be a good thing or a bad thing but I do
know it would be a monumental thing that would cause an unprecedented
discontinuity in human civilization. And I very much doubt he would be able
to keep them imprisoned for very long because you can't outsmart something
that's smarter than you are. *

*John K Clark    See what's on my new list at  Extropolis
<https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>*
dqm

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