[ExI] AI and Eliezer

[Samantha]

Oh my.  Eliezer the luddite.    I have been off the opinion for over two 
decades that there is no way for humanity to continue at the current 
level, much less transcend this level, without massively more effective 
intelligence deployed than today whether human or artificial.

If this is so then AGI is *essential* to human flourishing.

Also "shut it down" means shutting down and controlling the entire 
internet at this point.  The work has gone well outside a few large tech 
companies.  It is vibrantly alive and being advanced in the open source 
world.  Surely Eliezer doesn't believe humanity could survive the level 
of tyranny it would actually take to "shut it down"?

- samantha

On 3/13/24 17:31, Keith Henson via extropy-chat wrote:
> I have been perusing X recently to see what Anders Sandberg and
> Eliezer have been saying
>
> Eliezer Yudkowsky
> @ESYudkowsky
> ·
> 4h
> I don't feel like I know. Does anyone on the ground in DC feel like
> making a case? To be clear, the correct action is "Shut it down
> worldwide" and other actions don't matter; I'm not interested in who
> tries to regulate it more strictly or has nicer goals.
>
> ·
> 16m
> Replying to
> @ESYudkowsky
> Given the economic, political, and international realities, do you
> think "shut it down" is possible? If not, are there any other options?
> You might remember a story I posted on sl4 where a very well aligned
> AI caused humans to go extinct (though nobody died).
>
>
> Keith
>
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