On 1/23/2025 2:54 PM, John Clark wrote:
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.
*

You're making a big assumption that it has the same motivations you do.  Walk around outside.  Eat.  Reproduce.

Brent

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