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New Scientist reviews the Yudkowsky/Soares book. They don't recommend it.

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New Scientist reviews the Yudkowsky/Soares book. They don't recommend it.

www.newscientist.com

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SneerClub@awful.systemsEnglish · 3 months ago

No, AI isn’t going to kill us all, despite what this new book says

www.newscientist.com

The arguments made by AI safety researchers Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares in If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies are superficially appealing but fatally flawed, says Jacob Aron

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Remember, when your code doesn’t compile, it might mean you made a mistake in coding, or your code is about to become selfaware.

Good analogy actually.

Don’t forget Yud is also a big compiler understander
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  And a good writer. Verbosity being the soul of wit.

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