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Surur t1_ivj2irl wrote

Migrating to a digital world will make us immensely vulnerable as a species. An AGI might just decide to switch us off for example.

Also when you are digital you can never really die, whether you wish to or not. There would always be a back-up somewhere, and you could be re-instated and manipulated, not to mention tortured, at will.

In conclusion, going digital is very dangerous.

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wildechld t1_ivjt4h7 wrote

But we very well may already be in a digital world.

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Mach10vector t1_ivklcen wrote

Well, if that's true, that means we already are in a bad situation, we don't need o make it worse.

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Surur t1_ivk0dxe wrote

This is 100% true lol. This could be the Bad Place lol.

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StarChild413 t1_ivsph5n wrote

then that justifies not potentially triggering an infinite regress through a redundant discovery

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visarga t1_ivkg33g wrote

I have thought about that and am ready to assume the risks. I want to leave as much data as possible to maximise the chance of being reconstructed. Someone will create a pre-AGI-world-simulation and will use all the internet scrapes as training data. The people who have more detailed logs will have better reconstructions.

Even GPT-3 is good enough to impersonate real people in polls. You can poll GPT-3 (aka "silicon sampling") and approximate the reality. In the future, whenever you ask yourself "who am I?" is going to be more probable you are a simulation of yourself than the real thing.

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