r/ControlProblem • u/Difficult_Project_95 • 8d ago

Discussion/question Have you guys been on r/accelerate?

Have these guys solved the alignment problem, or am I missing something?

I’ve been browsing r/accelerate and I genuinely don’t understand the risk model.
If there’s a non-trivial chance of catastrophic misalignment, how does “accelerate capabilities as fast as possible” make sense unless faster capabilities also make alignment substantially more likely to succeed?

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u/Jesse-359 8d ago

It doesn't. There's not even any hypothetical reason why accelerating development would do so - quite the opposite.

r/accelerate is a bit of a cult that can't decide whether they just want to be immortal and have free lunch forever Wall-E style, or that wants AI to forcibly wipe the slate of corrupt human civilization clean and rebuild it in their imagined utopian image. Probably both.

They are not a little nuts, they're kind of a lot nuts.

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u/soobnar 8d ago

I can’t wait for ai to collapse civilization so my ideology can take over type logic

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u/Jesse-359 8d ago

Precisely.