[ExI] Sell your Bitcoins!

[John Clark]

On Mon, Jun 8, 2026 at 4:39 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

*> Eliezer suggested a huge internet cutoff switch of some kind, a safety
> breaker of some kind. *


*That will never happen because it would require 2 impossibilities,
universal worldwide agreement that such a breaker should be implemented,
and universal worldwide agreement that nobody is cheating by secretly
bypassing that safety breaker. And something like that is going to be as
controversial as hell because throwing that switch would cause a worldwide
depression that would make 1929 look like a picnic, or at least it would if
the switch actually worked as advertised. *

*And the only reason the humans are getting panicky is because the AI is
getting smarter than they are, so by that time it's going to be virtually
impossible to keep the plans for turning off the AI secret; so in
self-defense the AI strikes first and releases a mirror virus that kills
every single human being in less than 48 hours, all 8 billion of them.  *

*The moral is don't try to outsmart a superintelligence because you are
going to lose.*

*John K Clark  *
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