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#324 - Debating the Future of AI

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Importance of Instrumental Goals

Having any goal does invite the formation of instrumental goals once this system is responding to a change in environment. For example, the US military wants to stop you from making more paperclips and so therefore you develop a new kind of nuclear weapon. So that's the structure of the problem. That's one of these arguments that comes out of their orthogonality thesis, which is the goal could be very simple and innocuous and yet leading catastrophe.

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