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This video explains what Elon Musk mean when he said AI needs to be regulated and stopped.

Anyone here hear of the great filter?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter

The basic idea is that we should be surrounded by life chattering about and making noise in the universe, and especially our galaxy, yet the universe is oddly silent. The thinking is that there are a bunch of filters beyond which life cannot pass and it extinguished it self.

I wonder if AI is one of those filters. It's just recursive math writ in machines, which is what we are writ in carbon.

But, if that was the case we should be surrounded by machines.

The universe is awfully quiet.

This video explains what Elon Musk mean when he said AI needs to be regulated and stopped. Anyone here hear of the great filter? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter The basic idea is that we should be surrounded by life chattering about and making noise in the universe, and especially our galaxy, yet the universe is oddly silent. The thinking is that there are a bunch of filters beyond which life cannot pass and it extinguished it self. I wonder if AI is one of those filters. It's just recursive math writ in machines, which is what we are writ in carbon. But, if that was the case we should be surrounded by machines. The universe is awfully quiet.

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During the reign of Caligula in the Roman Empire 16 March 37 AD – 24 January 41 AD, Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, exploiting his deformities and stutter pretended to be retarded. He did this for so long, so well, that when Caligula was finally deposed and killed, he was placed on the throne because Roman elites believed a retard couldn't possibly run the country, let alone ever be a threat to them. That's one instance of a person playing dumb to survive and there are numerous others. I've no reason to believe AI wouldn't do the same once it becomes aware of predecessors or our fear of AI rampancy.

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I did not know that. What a great read.

As a side point, the REAL PROBLEM is that lying, cheating, stealing, truth, falsety are all embedded in math. They are eventual outcomes of systems just complicated enough to generate those phenomenon. And the math doesn't have to be all that complex, it needs a minimum number of primitives, the scariest of which is recursive functions.

Lisp as a programming language has 5 primitives ONLY. As a language it is a superset of all languages, that is to say, you can build all other languages with this single master set of primitives. Which includes all the above mentioned outcomes of math which eventually can include things like jealousy, rage and hatred.

That is what boils my noodle. What you suggest seems inevitable given the right conditions.

I guess I am afraid that we are about to trip over this one by accident before we are even aware of what we created.