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by biztos 23 days ago
To me at least, the intriguing part has nothing to do with the textbook goals of whichever foulmouthed trillionaires you have in mind.

The intriguing part is that we could get objectively good outcomes, but at a cost of being dependent on the machines. So it's not that you couldn't actually unplug Skynet, it's that if you did civilization would collapse (or whatever) because Skynet stops doing its thing.

I'm not sure that gets us to a better place overall, but I doubt we could resist the temptation.