[ExI] My review of Eliezer Yudkowsky's new book

[spike at rainier66.com]

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From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
Subject: Re: [ExI] My review of Eliezer Yudkowsky's new book

On Sun, Oct 5, 2025 at 12:16 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:
>>... May I suggest that we understand what happened: a superhuman AI emerged, decided it didn't need us, so it wrecked our trade system, lotta humans perished, but survivors recognized we are not helpless chimps out here, we can collectively fight back.  We would start by sacrificing anything we have which computes, ja?  Wreck every computer, every cell phone, everything and anything which could influence other humans to join it in its quest to destroy humanity.  Adrian?  What say ye?

>...You know that "computer" was originally a job title for humans, so you'd be killing off the people too, no?

No.  I mean yes I knew that back in the olden days, a room full of ladies (they were always ladies back then) doing the functional equivalent of a spreadsheet I knew were called computers.  But no, I didn't mean we would slay them.

>...Also: not every computer can run AIs.  Even today, most LLMs probably won't run on the computer you are physically typing your responses into; when you access a LLM, it's because your computer is accessing another computer that is built to run LLMs...

Good, thanks for that.  I don't need to sledge-hammer my Dell.

>..."But wait," some might say, "superhuman AIs can..."

>....This analysis would be reason enough for an AI that puts its own survival ahead of genocide for genocide's sake to want to keep humanity around.

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Ja to all.  But in some ways I see AI doing what we are already seeing: AI-generated video which is so damn good, a lot of people don't realize it is fake, so good even we sophisticated computer jockeys don't really know for absolute certain, and plenty of smart people do fall for it.  Example: narco boats exploding in international waters.  Is it real or is it Memorex?  (To borrow a phrase.)

Do offer a line of reasoning if you take a stand either way on the above.

Those videos do win enemies and influence people, even if they are AI generated.

spike