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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (23 children)

occurring to me for the first time that roko's basilisk doesn't require any of the simulated copy shit in order to work about as well as it does. if you think an all powerful ai within your lifetime is likely you can reduce to vanilla pascal's wager immediately, because the AI can torture the actual real you. all that shit about digital clones and their welfare is totally pointless

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It also helps that digital clones are not real people, so their welfare is doubly pointless

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean isn't that the whole point of "what if the AI becomes conscious?" Never mind the fact that everyone who actually funds this nonsense isn't exactly interested in respecting the rights and welfare of sentient beings.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

also they're talking about quadriyudillions of simulated people, yet openai has only advanced autocomplete ran at what, tens of thousands instances in parallel, and this already was too much compute for microsoft

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