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AI Risk (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard, with David Duvenaud)

Minds Almost Meeting

CHAPTER

The Potential for Cheap Legacy Building

I think there's a lot of worthless legacy and most of the legacies we have are kind of like worthless or accidental in that sense. But again, I think that the but can children giggling be that sort of a legacy? That is, could it just be that when enough children giggle enough poems are written about it, they're included into biographies so society collects the idea that they're valuable? And then that gets entrenched because of the same sort of network effects as programming languages. The question is does do we how do we maintain those things like whatever the like valuable but very valuable to me but not growth-provoting parts of this payload that I want to serve? How

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