Is AI the Paperclip?

(newcartographies.com)

30 points | by headalgorithm 10 hours ago ago

7 comments

  • thebeardisred 6 hours ago ago

    I'm amazed no one has linked the game version - https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html

  • moomin 8 hours ago ago

    Charlie Stross gives a great talk about Slow AI in which he argues that you don’t actually need a computer to build a paperclip oprimiser, and money is already a great paperclip.

  • bananaflag 9 hours ago ago

    Of course.

    You don't need any "weird" goal like paperclips. You just need the basic goals of survival and expansion that every species posesses (implicitly) to understand why a superintelligence is a danger.

    • gom_jabbar 9 hours ago ago

      Instrumental convergence is final convergence (w/o final goal divergence following instrumental convergence as assumed by Bostrom).

  • saulpw 8 hours ago ago

    Money is the paperclip.

  • facemelt2 8 hours ago ago

    >Are we not madly harvesting the world’s resources in a monomaniacal attempt to optimize artificial intelligence?

    No, we are not madly harvesting the world's resources in a monomaniacal attempt to optimize artificial intelligence. We are, however, harvesting the world's resources in an attempt to optimize artificial intelligence.

  • gentleman11 9 hours ago ago

    Honestly, after thinking about it, i guess it will be