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by nine_k 784 days ago
Ending the universe is, while poetic, needlessly megalomaniac.

Making some subset of people quarrel endlessly would already be dangerous enough, as prophesied in https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/

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By what mechanism would it make them quarrel? Producing falsehoods about the other? Isn't this already done? And don't we already know that it does not lead to "endless" conflict?

For this to work, you need to isolate each group from the other groups information and perspectives, which is outside of the scope of LLMs.

Which, highlights my point, I think. Power comes from physical control, not from megalomanical or melodramatic poetry.