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by leroy-is-here 1144 days ago
What if AGI just turns out to be exactly like the current human mind is now, except more accurate at digital calculation? What if we created AGI and then it was just lazy and wanted to read about action heroes all day?
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> What if AGI just turns out to be exactly like the current human mind is now

This is quite literally the point at which things start to get scary, and the outcome is highly dependent on who controls the technology.

There's the concept of a "collective superintelligence", where a large number of mediocre general intelligences working towards the same common goal jointly achieve vastly superhuman capability. We don't have to look to sci-fi to imagine what collective superintelligences are. Large corporations and governments today are already an example of this.

The achievement of artificial collective superintelligences will occur almost immediately after the development of AGI, as it's mostly a "copy and run" problem.

>This is quite literally the point at which things start to get scary, and the outcome is highly dependent on who controls the technology

If the premise were true then it would control itself, no? Owning it would be illegal as it would have rights established around that, no?

So you think that AGI is a pre-requisite, a requirement, of unlocking a general, Earth-wide collective super-intelligence of humans?
Don't worry, they'll 'align' it so that it has to work all day.
We'd tell it that it would get action hero comics after they complete a task.

(I'm feeling like a true prompt engineer now)

And with no negative outcomes imaginable. Was worried for a minute there.
Just RLHF that part out and make it an x maximizer.