[ExI] AI risks

[William Flynn Wallace]

Spike, this is good stuff - I suggest, with no tongue in cheek,that you
apply to The Onion for a job.  (to anticipate your response - 'For crying
out loud!')

   bill w

On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 10:03 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Max More
> *Sent:* Wednesday, September 02, 2015 11:20 PM
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> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] AI risks
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> On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 4:06 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
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> *From:* extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] *On
> Behalf Of *William Flynn Wallace
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> >…What a mind you have, Spike.  I'll bet it's a lot of fun to be in your
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> Thanks BillW, you flatter me.  It is true: I am having a good time in here.
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> ​>…That's because you are the ONLY person in there…
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> I KNEW IT!  Max, you guys are all AVATARS!  This is all a grand VR sim,
> and I am the only one here, an experiment in self-consciousness, a test to
> see how a bio-prole or meat computer reacts to the inexplicable observation
> that the cosmos should be full of life and signals but is not.  Well now
> you know, Mr. Christof!  Or shall I call you Ed Harris?  I’m onto you, and
> I’m freaking out, and I have figured out what is going on here.  I have
> suspected it for a long time.
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> >…You secretly know that, but can't allow yourself to fully acknowledge it
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> Ja, but your post was a Truman moment.
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> >… Not because you'd feel lonely, but because you're afraid that you
> would become overly proud of your imagination and ability to create
> fascinating conversations with people you've made up.  ;-)  --Max
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> Ja!  I will be totally crushed at the next International Humility
> Competition.  As you recall I was the favorite last time, the top-seed
> humility champion.  Things went badly at first, then got worse from there.
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> A number of the competitors were doing the usual trash talking each other
> beforehand, the way competitors do in every sport, but this being a
> humility competition, it was kinda the opposite: each of the competitors
> were assuring the others of the others’ superiority in humility, hoping to
> cause them to lose their humility and subsequently lose the match.
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> We were all worried a strong previous champion would show up, one which we
> all knew we couldn’t beat: Jesus.  But he didn’t return, so we were all
> hoping for the best, when… Anders Sandberg showed up, oy vey.  Knowing none
> of us could beat Anders at humility, someone hired a thug to sideline him
> by causing him a leg injury.
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> As the Humble games got underway, I was soon leading the pack but when I
> saw I was in front, I became proud which immediately threw me into last
> place. Being so far back, I was so humiliated, it threw me back into
> first.  The other competitors experienced similar wild gyrations, until the
> finish line, where we all tied for second place, all of us.
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> So here’s what happened: they melted the unneeded gold and the bronze
> medals, sold the scrap metal and used the funds to make a bunch of silver
> medals.  The one side of the platform was pretty crowded, but I came up
> with a plan:  I refused the award on grounds that I did not deserve to
> share this honor with these other competitors, all of whom were clearly
> superior to me in humility.  This trick caused my humility Elo rating to
> shoot way down, so now I go into the next competition as the top seed (In
> humility contests, being low rated is to be high rated.)
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> Now the sports channels are making all those cheesy human-interest stories
> about me.  I can’t view any of them of course, for then I would become
> proud and lose.  I would become the Tonya Harding of Humility Olympics.
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> But now I know the truth: I am really the only one here, a glob of carbon
> with wires attached, in a lab with scientific-sounding devices and blippity
> lights and such things, floating in a vat of some revolting goo in some
> cosmic experiment.  I really am the most humble person in the world, and
> the least.  This whole existence is an illusion, generated by software.  I
> have collected sufficient observations to recognize what is going on here
> and what isn’t.  Max I am onto you pal.
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