<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Doing nothing is the most common response to the train-switch dilemma.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">I think that the train/switch thing is phony. No one knows what he would do in such a situation. Probably panic and run away unable to do anything. In the old Texas fire situation, a man listened carefully to how to get out of the building, then turned away and jumped out the window. Actual case. bill w</font></span></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 7:40 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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From: Keith Henson <<a href="mailto:hkeithhenson@gmail.com" target="_blank">hkeithhenson@gmail.com</a>> <br>
Subject: Re: [ExI] ai wants to do ya<br>
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On Thu, May 18, 2023 at 9:44 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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>>... If China doesn't produce more young men, they will have a hard time <br>
>>... fielding an army. Solution: robot armies.<br>
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>...Or de-age the population. Keith<br>
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Ja. It will apparently require super-human intelligence to figure out how to de-age the human population. AI is not incentivized to do that, even if it knows how.<br>
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The above is a variation on the AI-will-kill-us-all theme. AI would do nothing and let us die of natural causes. Doing nothing is the most common response to the train-switch dilemma.<br>
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