by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
Because I like to make my abstract fears concrete, I find myself thinking a lot about what the specific tick-tock of the Singularity might be. How, exactly, would an Artificial Superintelligence pop out?
At the moment, I’m at something of a loss.
I just don’t know. I know, in hazy terms, that it would involve an AGI beginning to recursively self-improving itself and that, in turn, would lead it to be God-like in its powers. But…where exactly does it come from? How exactly does it escape?
One new idea that I’ve seen (from a YouTube video) is Chinese hackers are “accidently on purpose” allowed to copy an AGI’s weights and that, in turn, leads to ASI that then takes over the world.
Now, my biggest fear is that somehow Trump or Musk will figure out a way to upload their minds so THEY become the personality of any ASI we get and we’re stuck with either one of those two fuckers as our Dune Messiah for an eternity. That would suck so bad.
But, relative to what I know, that’s at least a possibility.
