Melllvar

Whenever guillotines are brought up I like to point out that ~90% of the people guillotined during the French Revolution were regular commoners. And the last guy to be guillotined was the guy who had been in charge of deciding who to guillotine next.

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?

Sorry, I lost the world’s smallest violin. This is the best I can do: 🖕

Are there examples of censorship or prior restraint you’d like to highlight?

There’s a movie where the president (actually a decoy) fakes a stroke during a speech to Congress.

https://youtu.be/pOgf3IaWlgU?t=172

There is no such thing as an innocent billionaire.