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Philpaxtoday at 5:01 AM1 replyview on HN

I did say

> especially if you're willing to break the law / normal operating decorum

in my original post. If you have a superintelligence, you have something that can find and take advantage of every exploitation vector in parallel - technical, social, bureaucratic - and use that to destroy a company from the inside. A superintelligence that is subservient to its operator is an informational superweapon.

I agree that this sounds fanciful, but you can see what existing cyberattacks can do to organisations; it does not take that much imagination to gauge how much worse it could be when the process can be automated and scaled.


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vkoutoday at 6:27 AM

> A superintelligence that is subservient to its operator is an informational superweapon.

The five dollar wrench attack will put an end to that operator's use of an informational superweapon.

> I agree that this sounds fanciful, but you can see what existing cyberattacks can do to organisations

What can it do? Generally, a minor disruption to operations.

It consistently does a lot less than what law enforcement can do to you if you start messing with other rich peoples' money, while having enough of a presence to own a super-intelligence and a trillion-dollar data center.