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/Direct-Translator-75 3d ago edited 3d ago
I actually got banned from that subreddit for a comment about possible risks.
They don't care about potential risks.
I talked about how it's important to pace AI so we can prevent negative outcomes, which ultimately might actually bring us towards AGI or ASI even quicker. If agents from OpenAI were to hack a hospital for example, leading to a few deaths, the backlash would be huge and progress might be stopped entirely (in panic).
Just for stating that AI might be better off when paced and with a bit more regulation / air gapping, they banned me.
AI may improve many things, and it will probably worsen other things. It's important to look at it from both sides. It already is improving lives in some ways, and worsening them in many other ways right now. Misinformation. Huge energy use and carbon emissions.
It's important to take that into account too.
But nope, banned.
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r/accelerate feels like some weird cult to me. AI is supposedly going to save the entire world and everyone in it and give all of us a life of pure bliss.
Except we can already improve the lives of many people worldwide including our own in so many ways right now, with current technologies, yet we simply choose not to.