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by codehandle 2987 days ago
This. Bothered to login to say what you said.

We talk about AI optimized to create paper clips accidentally running amok and turning the world into paper clips. Why isn't profit a similar problem? Government agencies are just AI running on meat. Give them success parameters different than raw profits.

Honestly, why can't we see this as just a variant of the instrumental convergence problem?