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Mark S. Miller | Civilization as relevant superintelligence

The Foresight Institute Podcast

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The Rise of Civilization as a Super Intelligence

" civilization as a whole is sort of the ultimate existing network of entities making requests of other entities," he says. "In a system dominated by voluntary interactions where the interactions are generally engaged in an expectation of mutual benefit, the emergent property of the system to a first approximation should lead to the climbing of Pareto-preferred hills" He argues that while traditional AI safety approaches seek to create this novel non-human entity and then try to align it with human interests, instead what we should consider is civilization as super intelligence because it is already super intelligent and aligned with our interests.

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