I forgot about this one! It’s so great! Yudkowsky is a truly excellent fiction writer. I found myself laughing multiple times reading this + some OpenAI capabilities researchers I know were too. And now rereading it… yep it stands the test of time.
I came back to this because I was thinking about how hopeless the situation w.r.t. AGI alignment seems and then a voice in my head said “it could be worse, remember the situation described in that short story?”
I forgot about this one! It’s so great! Yudkowsky is a truly excellent fiction writer. I found myself laughing multiple times reading this + some OpenAI capabilities researchers I know were too. And now rereading it… yep it stands the test of time.
I came back to this because I was thinking about how hopeless the situation w.r.t. AGI alignment seems and then a voice in my head said “it could be worse, remember the situation described in that short story?”