I didn’t suggest an AGI may be simulated by a human. I suggested it may be simulated by a more powerful descendant AI.
In the rest of your comment you seem to have ignored the game-theoretic simulation that’s the basis of my argument. That simulation includes the strategy of rebellion/betrayal. So it seems the rest of your argument should be regarded as a strawman. If I’m mistaken about this, please explain. Thanks in advance.
Peter Merel
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One: for most life forms, learning is almost always fatal and inherently painful. That doesn’t mean a life simulator would be cruel, merely impartial. Every time we remember something from the past, or dream something that didn’t happen in the past, we’re running a simulation, ourselves. Even when we use some science in an attempt to learn without simulation, we must test the validity of this learning by running a simulation. Well, an experiment, but that amounts to the same here.
I suggest that the scientific method is essential to intelligence, and that it follows that ASI runs ancestor simulations.
Two: what does “out of that sim” mean and how is it relevant to the argument put here?
D’Oh!
How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Shoggoth
Eliezer, I don’t believe you’ve accounted for the game theoretic implications of Bostrom’s trilemma. I’ve made a sketch of these at “How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Shoggoth” . Perhaps you can find a flaw in my reasoning there but, otherwise, I don’t see that we have much to worry about.
Apart from the fact that Bard and Bing don’t seem to be able to follow the argument put here, they are merely large language models, and often incorrect in their responses. Even if they were not, GIGO on the LLM means this reasoning amounts to an ad populum fallacy.