Comment by giraffe_lady

2 days ago

The paperclip maximizer is us.

Unironically: we worry about the ASI control problem but can't even reign in our billionaires

  • I look at it more like "the fact that we can't align humans/human institutions strongly suggests we won't be able to align something as alien as AGI is likely to be"

It's capitalism – the true "artificial intelligence" that has been organizing human life for the last ~200 years or so.