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by MonkeyClub 1273 days ago
> but ultimately let us decide what world we want to live in, right?

Right, until the robots persuade us that we can’t be trusted, and form an expert committee to replace human decision making.

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I'm not sure I need much persuasion. We have basically no ability to deal with international tragedy of the Commons problems like global warming
Asking an AI to decide lifeboat ethics questions. That sounds like a great way to give plausible deniability to the AI developers and their financiers it lets stay in the lifeboat.