You like music – The paperclip maximiser likes paperclips.

If loving temporally organised oscillations in air pressure is not crazy, why is loving paperclips?

The paperclip maximiser story is demonstrating that saying someone is Super-Intelligent means Super-Capable. It says nothing about how Super-Insane that someone may be.

An intelligent entity can value anything.

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Inspired by @the_yanco

“Smart AI would never want something as ridiculous as paperclips!” – exclaimed AI skeptic and went on to enjoy his favorite temporally organized oscillations in air pressure obtained by picking seven specific frequencies out of logarithmic split of twelve for each doubling.

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Post-scarcity blues

Even the best utopian scenario of a fully automated “solved world” is actually dystopian AF !!!

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I want you to picture this:
You wake up tomorrow in your bed that adjusts to your perfect sleep cycle. Your coffee brewed exactly how you like it. Your news curated for your bubble, your entertainment selected for your mood and your feel… NOTHIN! Cuz somewhere in the night while you were sleeping, the world learned to run without you.

Your job… AUTOMATED! your creativity… REPLICATED! your expertise… DOWNLOADED! Your perspective… SIMULATED! your passion projects… GENERATED IN SECONDS!

You sit there in your perfect automated morning with your perfect, personalised everything and you realise:

NOBODY CALLED! NOBODY TEXTED! NOBODY NEEDS YOU TO SOLVE ANYTHING! NOBODY NEEDS YOU.  NOBODY NEEDS YOU TO CREATE ANYTHING! NOBODY NEEDS YOU TO SHOW UP! NOBODY NEEDS. NOBODY NEEDS YOU.

And that feeling you’ve been pushing down,

that dread creeping up your spine, that voice you’ve been silencing, finally speaks…

“Will I matter anymore?”

Do I… matter anymore?

“Scraping copyrighted content is Ok as long as I do it”

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(To be clear, I don’t approve open-sourcing, as it’s probably exacerbating things, but just highlighting the hypocrisy)

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The AI does not love you. Nor does it hate you, but you are made out of letters that can be used to spell something else. ___OK_______

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