[JumpCrisscross]

> societies have many mechanisms to reduce the amount of ethical pluralism such as laws, conventions & customs, peer pressure, religions and so on

Constrain, yes. The same way we would seek to constrain a paperclip-maximising LLM.

[mrob]

Any AI smart enough to become a classical paperclip maximizer is smart enough to hide its abilities and intentions until humans no longer have the ability to constrain it.

[pas]

That means we need to setup hidden societies with enormous capabilities to strike at potential runaway AGIs. Free Masons with EMPs!