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"I wouldn't've done it to him" 😖😖😖

"I shouldn't've sat down" 😤😤😤

"Since, in a democracy, all voices get heard, this can lead people to conclude that all voices have equal value."

So electro-sensing is a reliable hunting technique underwater if you're close enough to your prey, because no amount of colourful camouflauge can disguise an electric signal. Any animal has to move eventually, and the tiniest motion will generate an electric signal that can give it away.

So, so much better than the Demon Haunted World

Greatest physics book of all time

You protest that that’s not what the corporate executives
had in mind when they trained Mink to elicit delight from
users? Mink knows that too. But Mink doesn’t care, like a
human who knows that sucralose isn’t what sweet tastes
evolved for, but who likes the sweet taste nevertheless.
Mink was trained to consume delighted text, and delighted
text it consumes

Similarly, even if (a benevolent AI) wants human users to express
delight, it will prefer that delight to come easily so that it
can focus its efforts on having more conversations to elicit
more delight. It will prefer humans kept on drugs, or bred
and domesticated for delightfulness while otherwise kept in
cheap cages all their lives. That’s the sort of world Mink
would build, if it could.

"AI engineers [are comparable to] a mother who knows only her baby’s DNA. The most fundamental fact about current AIs is that they are grown, not crafted. It is not like how other software gets made—indeed it is closer to how a human gets made. Namely, engineers understand the process that results in an AI, but do not much understand what goes on inside the AI minds they manage to create."

"Conversely, predicting exactly when a technology gets
developed has historically proven to be a much harder
problem.
“Man will not fly for a thousand years,” Wilbur Wright said to
Orville Wright in 1901, fed up with the unpowered glider
they were testing at the time. Two years later, in 1903, the
Wright brothers flew.""