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LessWrong: but what about some eugenics, tho? (www.lesswrong.com)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

I think people are misreading the post a little. It's a follow on from the old AI x-risk argument: "evolution optimises for having kids, yet people use condoms! Therefore evolution failed to "align" humans to it's goals, therefore aligning AI is nigh-impossible".

As a commentator points out, for a "failure", there sure do seem to be a lot of human kids around.

This post then decides to take the analogy further, and be like "If I was hypothetically a eugenicist god, and I wanted to hypothetically turn the entire population of humanity into eugenicists, it'd be really hard! Therefore we can't get an AI to build us, like, a bridge, without it developing ulterior motives".

You can hypothetically make this bad argument without supporting eugenics... but I wouldn't put money on it.