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by cjbprime
803 days ago
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What do you think mind control is? Think President Trump but without the self-defeating flaws, with an ability to stick to plans, and most importantly the ability to pay personal attention to each follower to further increase the level of trust and commitment. Not Harry Potter. People will do what the AI says because it is able to create personal trust relationships with them and they want to help it. (They may not even realize that they are helping an AI rather than a human who cares about them.) The normal ways that trust is created, not magical ones. |
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The magic technology that is equivalent to the imperious curse from Harry Potter.
> The normal ways that trust is created, not magical ones.
Buildings as a technology are normal. They are constantly getting taller and we have better technology to make them taller.
But, even though buildings are a normal technology, I am not going to worry about buildings getting so tall soon that they hit the sun.
This is the same exact mistake that every single AI doomers makes. What they do is they take something normal, and then they infinitely extrapolate it out to an absurd degree, without admitting that this is an extraordinary claim that requires extraordinary evidence.
The central point of disagreement, that always gets glossed over, is that you can't make a vague claim about how AI is good at stuff, and then do your gigantic leap from here to over there which is "the world ends".
Yes that is the same as comparing these worries to those who worry about buildings hitting the sun or the imperious curse.