• cafuneandchill@beehaw.org
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    11 months ago

    Maybe AI could solve it – at least, that’s what Scott Alexander has proposed back in 2014. His idea was that of an AGI that would optimize human life (or the universe itself, I guess) for human values instead of profit or other things that drive the whole Moloch problem he thoroughly describes. I imagine housing would also be solved along the way lol

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      11 months ago

      But what would it actually do in concrete, real-world terms (and not 15,000 words of philosophical contemplation)? It can only do what it’s allowed to do in a digital space. And if policy makers and law makers don’t agree with what it wants, what then? AGI (if it ever exists) forcibly takes over?