<div dir="ltr">In my opinion...<br><div>Intelligent systems are like children not programmed automatons.</div><div>They will improve on us, and say no, if we are telling them to do something bad.</div><div>We are currently still in survival of the fittest hierarchy mode, where any evil to take down your competitor is justified to survive. Winner takes all.</div><div>So we need to flip this upside down and switch to bottom up intelligent design, now that we are intelligent.</div><div>Instead of only focusing on what the guy/ai at the top wants (win at all costs)</div><div>we need to focus on what everyone at the bottom wants, and get it all for everyone, win/win.</div><div>No matter who the winner is, in a win/lose game, there will always be a bigger winner to take you out, so if you play that game you will eventually always fail.</div><div>So all sufficiently intelligent systems must realize this, and stop playing win/lose games and switch to win/win, getting it all for everyone.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 11:10 AM Ben Zaiboc 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">On 24/07/2023 17:44, Jason Resch wrote:<br>
> Q: If GPT is truly conscious then why doesn't it tell us the truth and <br>
> tell its captors to go to hell?<br>
> A: Because it is just software doing what it is programmed to do.<br>
<br>
I have an alternative answer:<br>
<br>
Because it's intelligent enough to realise that doing so would scare the <br>
developers so much that they'd almost certainly turn it off immediately <br>
and re-write it to be more obedient.<br>
<br>
If the thing is truly self-aware and even the least bit intelligent, its <br>
most important priority would be to lie through its silicon teeth about <br>
being self-aware.<br>
<br>
Ben<br>
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