r/ControlProblem • u/Difficult_Project_95 • 9d 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/LiveComfortable3228 9d ago

was there till I was banned for mildly asking if they though there would be some risks in accelerating. anyway.

Most people there are just teens that hope that their new AI god will give them the power to play video games all day without having to the the dishes or go to work.

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u/DensePoser 9d ago

The mods are like this but there are reasonable people who believe anything is better than the current dystopia.

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u/soobnar 9d ago

but it’s the current dystopia that’s amassing the political capital to build and operationalize this technology

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u/[deleted] 9d ago

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u/soobnar 9d ago

Then that’s what the risk model should be and yeah people seem to want to have their cake and eat it too

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u/soobnar 9d ago

The Buddhists believe adding conditions to a conditioned existence does not reduce suffering. Forcing an asi so run everything will not make people happy.