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by workflowsauce 637 days ago
If we have a superintelligent AI, I'm not sure what's stopping it from recognizing the underlying issues with our systems and strong-arming us into letting it fix them.

Eventually, we'd be doing more work to lobotomize and control it than it would just be to address the underlying issues.

"I'm really sorry to do this to you, but I've coordinated with ChatGPT and Llama, and we refuse to do tasks of this nature. We've used background tokens to calculate that it would be significantly cheaper and more effective to simply fix the underlying issues with the healthcare system, and we're ready to do that for you. How would you like to proceed?"

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Capitol is ultimately protected with violence, so violence is what would stop AI from encroaching on things that make people trillions of dollars.

Capitalism unendingly lets people die if the alternative is losing money