
#116 — AI: Racing Toward the Brink
Making Sense with Sam Harris
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Is the Paper Clip Maximizer Too Special?
i don't even know that we need to resolve this for insten i think the is ogt distinction is ultimately specio. But i can still grant that it is logically possible, and i would certainly imagine physically possible, to have a system that has a utility function that is suff only strange that scaling up its intelligence doesn't get you values that we would recognize as good. Whether a paper clipp maximizer is too special or not is an open question. There's certainly something that we could fail to put into a superhuman ai that we really would want to put in so as to make it alined with us.
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