@YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems
2026-09-13 17:36 UTC
I’m reminded of Yudkowsky’s take that AI is totally going to kill us all and we should treat this seriously enough to bomb foreign datacenters if we think they’re involved in AI development, but that doesn’t mean that you should try to bomb local datacenters involved in AI development work. Please don’t think about what you as an individual should do about the problems facing the world; you’re just an NPC after all.
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@Architeuthis@awful.systems 2026-09-13 19:29
Yud isn’t necessarily inconsistent here: he really really wants the robot god to become real so it can invent the blowjob machine and win utilitarianism, but he only trusts people he’s met personally to do it, and certainly not those shifty celestials. Please don’t think about what you as an individual should do about the problems facing the world; you’re just an NPC after all. Or as the AI2027 blog put it: We may only have 2 years left before humanity’s fate is sealed! Despite the urgency, please do not pursue extreme uncooperative actions. If something seems very bad on common-sense ethical views, don’t do it.