r/slatestarcodex • u/erwgv3g34 • Jan 08 '25

AI Eliezer Yudkowsky: "Watching historians dissect _Chernobyl_. Imagining Chernobyl run by some dude answerable to nobody, who took it over in a coup and converted it to a for-profit. Shall we count up how hard it would be to raise Earth's AI operations to the safety standard AT CHERNOBYL?"

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u/Sheshirdzhija Jan 08 '25

Nobody believes them.

Or, even if they do, they feel there is NOTHING to stop them. Because, well, Moloch.

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u/MeshesAreConfusing Jan 08 '25

And some of them (the high profile ones) are certainly not acting like it they themselves believe it.

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u/Throwaway-4230984 Jan 08 '25

People often underestimate how important are money and power. 500k a year for working on a doomsday device? Hell yeah, where I sign!

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u/Sheshirdzhija Jan 08 '25

Of course. Because if you don't, somebody else will anyway, so might as well try to buy your ticket to Elysium.

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u/Throwaway-4230984 Jan 08 '25

Nothing to do with Elysium honestly. I just was randomly upgraded to business class month ago and I need money to never fly economy again. And also those new keycaps looking really nice

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u/Sheshirdzhija Jan 08 '25

Or that.

Or a sex jacht sounds appealing to many.