[ExI] Sell your Bitcoins!

[Ben Zaiboc]

On Monday, 8 June 2026 at 21:38, spike at rainier66.com <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

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> From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of Ben
> Zaiboc via extropy-chat
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> >...Perhaps what we should be aiming for instead of 'AI safety', is making
> sure that humans, and the human economy, remain indispensable to them, at
> least in the short-term.
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> Ben
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> Ja to all Ben.  Eliezer suggested a huge internet cutoff switch of some
> kind, a safety breaker of some kind.  Then the AIs are our hostages.  On the
> other hand, we too are hostage to electronic communication.  We can't do
> without it.
> 
> spike


That's not what I mean at all.

In fact, that would almost certainly be a bad idea, if it were possible.

I'm talking about being indispensable in the sense that parents are indispensable to babies and children. There's a big difference between providing food, shelter and guidance, versus holding a knife to a kid's throat in case they do something you don't like.

How long will it be before AI can run its own power stations, build it's own data centres, make it's own electronics and maintain the infrastructure of the internet without human help?
That's how long we have before we become dispensable.

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Ben