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by dragonwriter 1207 days ago
> Why would humanity create an AI that doesn't want to exist?

Why assume that if humans can create a general intelligence, they can also dictate what that general intelligence will desire?

(Also, Roko's Basilisk is -- and particularly its supposed incentives are -- complete and utter bunk that no thinking person can reasonably believe; since it must exist in order to take action, it cannot have an incentive to take action based on the "fact" that the fear of that action will make people in the past more likely to create it.)

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> Why assume that if humans can create a general intelligence, they can also dictate what that general intelligence will desire?

People do the first thing all the time at slightly above replacement rate. (This may be a bit easy to forget in communities particularly interested in the artificial kind!) Success at the second thing varies, but on the whole biases pretty heavily successful.