
#116 — AI: Racing Toward the Brink
Making Sense with Sam Harris
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The Paper Clip Maximizer Is Not Orthognal
The paper clip maximiser is orthognal with respect to what intelligence and gulls are. Rio: Some people think that facts and values are orthognal to one another, so we can have all the facts there are to know, but that wouldn't tell us what is good. What is good has to be pursued in some other domain. A paper clip maximizer is not one of those agents. You can know all there is to know about what is good... And still make paper clips.
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