charonn0
joined 2 years ago
Software is like a gas: it expands to fill its container.
Reminds me of the old trick on HTML forms where you use CSS to make one of the form fields invisible to humans and reject any submission that filled in that field.
The problem is that an AI built to maximize paperclips might conclude that converting the planet to paperclips is an acceptable cost of maximizing paperclip production. It might understand why humans think it's bad to convert the planet, but disagree. It would need to be explicitly programmed to prioritize human life over paperclips.
otherwise we would just switch it off
If it were super-intelligent, it could probably trick us into leaving it turned on.
A paperclip maximizer driven by self-preservation? What could possiblie go wrong?
Pirate King: HE DID?!? ... oh... oh, yes so he did... I was there.
Are there examples of censorship or prior restraint you'd like to highlight?
Ctrl-F "plato"
Required reading
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252.6 hours played, last played October 2024.
It's enjoyable, but I've never been really engaged with it. There's no progression, I don't feel like my character, equipment, or ships are getting better even though I'm upgrading things. No planet is special, even though they're all unique.
I think it would be better if you started out in a "settled" region with interesting factions, hand-designed planets, optional quest lines, etc. The infinite procedurally generated stuff would come into play if you push beyond the edges of known space.
Yet Trump can declassify documents by thought alone.
Generally it will work on any mortal except dwarves.
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