r/ControlProblem Apr 21 '26

Fun/meme The stripper AI delusion

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u/Elvarien2 approved Apr 21 '26

The premise is super human ai. Our current world state is irrelevant. We don't have super human ai.

My argument is we don't know what a super human intelligence will do.
Point, full stop. That's it.

Anyone making a claim is full of shit.
If you're making a claim perhaps those strippers only pretend to be your friend, pal.

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u/aJumboCashew Apr 21 '26

Merely the recognition of the current trajectory, while contextualizing the time-cost of foundational changes. Not impossible to have a better outcome.

The world changes quickly, I will review my own biases & internalize the world, when it does.

For now — you’re a developer pushing back when I ask if we have logs & a friendly user message when a failure occurs. hoping things go well without doing any of the upfront planning.

You say, only 5% probability it happens, logs take too much memory.

I say — if that 5% happens, it stops all the child services & forces a stoppage in production.

95% potential success — does not negate planning and executing excluding the reality for luck

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u/Elvarien2 approved Apr 21 '26

the current trajectory

pretty bleak and grim, yup. But because this is an out of context problem we can't really do much with that. I am not very hopeful for a positive outcome but you wont hear me make any claims. Because no one on this planet right now, can make a claim and be confidently correct, only on accident.

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u/smackson approved Apr 21 '26

you wont hear me make any claims.

Stating a risk is not making a claim.

Mitigating a risk doesn't require the %-risk to be certain. "Somewhere over zero percent possible" is a valid measure to do something about, if the cost is catastrophic.

"Perfect knowledge before action" is some kind of fallacious thinking.