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>*
dqm
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