Comment by beeflet
2 months ago
The slow AIs are driven by consumer behavior. Paperclip optimizers die pretty quickly without demand for paperclips.
The inputs and the outputs of the AI are always human-facing, so the goals vaguely resemble human values (even if the values are greed).
Corporate propaganda is driven by consumer-blaming.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44335953
What gets to the top of the feed? Organic, rational arguments or the arguments with enough money behind them? Economics explains it, again.