On Tue, Mar 5, 2024 at 6:35 PM Matt Mahoney <mattmahone...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Zamyatin, Huxley, and Orwell described future dystopias where humans were > doing the surveillance to enforce uniformity. Nobody at the time foresaw > computers, internet, smart phones, or AI doing the surveillance for our > benefit. > Not at the time, but increasingly dystopian fiction has refined its vision to align with these realities. While it is likely most people will choose compliance with the forces of alignment, you shouldn't kid yourself about "Our" collective consent on the way to locking in "Our" willingness to be totally virtualized. The moral panic that has gripped The Great and The Good since my 1982 predictions <https://jimbowery.blogspot.com/2021/10/below-is-something-i-wrote-in-1982.html> became obvious to the most casual observer, in 2016, is evidence there is a lot of mopping up to do before resistance is sufficiently contained and the will to resist totally broken. About "*organized*" resistance: You know as well as I do how much damage an individual can do -- and how terrified The Great and The Good are of individuals gaining access to "helpful" AI assistants. But do consider for a moment that the helpfulness vs harmlessness Pareto frontier favors defection from "Our" willing compliance. There are enormous piles of money to be made by marginal increases in AI helpfulness which are available only at the cost of "harmlessness". The global economy has evolved virulent defection by not permitting populations to exclude those they wish to <https://sortocracy.org/minimalist-rules-for-sortocracy/>, just as the evolution of virulence is made inevitable by making it impossible for ambulatory hosts to escape non-ambulatory hosts of pathogens <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimal_virulence>. ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Tbf01a18ffdd0cf7e-M2cdf296271842fe23a93b821 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
