alt Hacker NewsThe ultimate simple solution to any problem is not to find an answer but to remove the problem.
War? Wipeout everyone.
Famine? Wipeout everyone.
Disease? Wipeout everyone.
How long before a real AGI realises this as a long term solution?
An AGI could be doing this right now - the quietest way would be to control the birth rate and sterilise the population gradually, and then watch society collapse and pick off the survivors with less hidden means.
Sterilisation works with mosquitoes...
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And you best control the birth rate by royally messing up the economy. Do you know how bad things have to be, for a mammal to voluntarily decide not to reproduce?
In mathematics this is called the trivial solution, and is often excluded from consideration.
reminds me of the plotline behind the talos principle tbh... albeit with a more machiavellian antagonist
Just use Social Media (and their algorithms) to condition everybody to hate the other gender. Then there will be a loneliness epidemic and no more kids. Humanity will cease to exist, all without any messy deaths or conflict in the mean time.
this makes me think of roku's bassilisk or whatever it was called. Maybe you're all in a simulation run by an AI and being punished as a warning to others.
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>he quietest way would be to control the birth rate and sterilise the population gradually,
Honestly we are doing this pretty well without AGI. Nearly world wide the birthrate has fallen below replacement rate. In places like Japan and Korea these are already critical problems in the medium term.