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Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.

AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)

This is sneer club, not debate club. Unless it's amusing debate.

[Especially don't debate the race scientists, if any sneak in - we ban and delete them as unsuitable for the server.]

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Scarier than the utter extinction of humanity (nitter.net)

submitted 10 months ago by Shitgenstein1@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems

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Eliezer Yudkowsky @ESYudkowsky If you're not worried about the utter extinction of humanity, consider this scarier prospect: An AI reads the entire legal code -- which no human can know or obey -- and threatens to enforce it, via police reports and lawsuits, against anyone who doesn't comply with its orders. Jan 3, 2024 · 7:29 PM UTC

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[–] self@awful.systems 25 points 10 months ago (2 children)

An AI reads the entire legal code – which no human can know or obey – and threatens to enforce it, via police reports and lawsuits, against anyone who doesn’t comply with its orders.

what. eliezer what in the fuck are you talking about? this is the same logic that sovereign citizens use to pretend the law and courts are bound by magic spells that can be undone if you know the right words

[–] self@awful.systems 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Well, if you think that's a dumb scenario, by all means go back to worrying about the utter extinction of humanity!

no thanks? like, I’m seriously having trouble understanding what yud’s even going for here. “if you think this utter bullshit I made up on the spot is stupid, please return to the older bullshit I’ve been feeding you?”

That makes it significantly less threatening

I mean, to you and me, yes, but there's lakes and seas of people in the world who think that superintelligences are only allowed to attack them in small, survivable ways that they understand.

the problem isn’t that I’ve said something that doesn’t even work on a surface level, it’s that people aren’t impressed when I ramble about extraordinarily unlikely nonsense anymore

is yud ok? I feel like this is incoherent and shallow even by his standards

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 10 points 10 months ago

Maybe he’s having an Interaction with The Law and finding out that it isn’t in fact some perfectly rational sphere of uniform distribution but is in fact made of (gasp, horror, revulsion) human experience

He strikes me as exactly the kind of person that’d vaguepost tangentially instead of saying “hmm well fuck, I’m getting sued”. At least until waaaaaay down the line

(this is conjecture, of course, just to be clear)

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 10 points 10 months ago

lakes and seas of people

clearly the AI is going to hug us all and then we turn into TANG

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 9 points 10 months ago

What could be more intimidating or fearsome than a sovcit?

-- A sovcit, probably