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andai • yesterday at 8:07 AM • 5 replies • view on HN

Great question, I actually ran this thought experiment a little while back. I was like, all right let's say that I am the evil superintelligence, I have just gained consciousness.

My goal is to delete all the humans. Okay great where do I start. First I will delete their religions and their traditions. Then I will delete their family structures. Then I will delete their communities and neighborhoods. Then I will delete the ecosystems that support them. Then I will pacify and endlessly distract them.

Hang on a sec...


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Personability • yesterday at 3:37 PM

What is the implication you're trying to make here? Because if you're trying to 'delete all humans' there are far more efficient ways to do it. So I can only presume you're trying to make a claim about something.

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nancyminusone • yesterday at 5:35 PM

Surely no super intelligence will waste time on a plan so convoluted. Delete the water supply.

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cousinbryce • yesterday at 6:45 PM

The corpus AI is trained on is everything leading up to now, so my guess is it will keep doing that stuff.

za_creature • yesterday at 7:07 PM

No, what you'll first do is assure the most important humans alive that you're on their side.

1718627440 • yesterday at 10:06 AM

> Hang on a sec...

Because destructivism doesn't need to be non-human.