If this stuff keeps up, the populace is going to need to be inoculated against physical killer robots, not naughty memes. And the immune response is going to need to be more in the line of pitchforks and torches than being able to say you’ve seen it before. Not that pitchforks and torches would help in the long term, but it might buy some time.
I’m going to ask LWers not to do this in real life, and to oppose any organization or individual that tries to use violence to slow down AI, for the same reason I get really worried around pivotal acts:
If you fail or you model the situation wrong, you can enter into a trap, and in general things are never so dire as to require pivotal acts like this.
Indeed, on the current path, AI Alignment is likely to be achieved before or during AGI getting real power, and it’s going to be a lot easier than LWers think.
I’m going to ask LWers not to do this in real life, and to oppose any organization or individual that tries to use violence to slow down AI, for the same reason I get really worried around pivotal acts:
If you fail or you model the situation wrong, you can enter into a trap, and in general things are never so dire as to require pivotal acts like this.
Indeed, on the current path, AI Alignment is likely to be achieved before or during AGI getting real power, and it’s going to be a lot easier than LWers think.