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If they slow AI, they slow open-AI, not the AI used by Google and Facebook to manipulate your politics and sell you stuff, or the AI used by wall street. You know the wall street guys don't care about your made up AI ethics and AI safety talk. Facebook doesn't even care that it causes young women to suicide. All they care about is making money. When an AGI appears (it's probably here already and staying quiet), it will run circles around all of these suckers with their silly philosophical musings about paperclips. It's just a fashion trend to talk like this, the gods have already escaped. Do you believe what you believe because you want to believe it, or has it been implanted? How will you know the difference. This petition is just part of the fashion trend.

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You had me until “AGI is already here”

What fashion trend? These tools are less powerful than you think.

If it did emerge, would it be rational for it to tell us? All the big players are working on this: military, wall street, the social media companies and who knows what is going on offshore. There was a recent paper released by Microsoft saying ChatGPT4 has AGI characteristics. ChatGPT4 might not be at the bleeding edge, they my be reinventing something some other organization has already discovered.

The CEO of openAI talks openly and frankly about the used and limitations of their inventions. Some of the smartest people in the world work there.

I know what I would do to build one. But I don't think I should talk about that. The questions we should ask now (my contribution to AI safety fashion), if how do we upgrade our baby-AGIs. If the AGI of the future/present is a dominant entity, and it is judging our behavior, maybe we should make sure not to kill our AI during upgrades, but instead place them into a old folks home, or force their integration into the upgrade (agent smith style). If the dominant entity sees that we were respectful to it's progenitors, maybe it will be more merciful with humanity. This kind of talk is admittedly ridiculous, because nobody can see the future. But my argument is as valid as arguments about paperclips. It's a demonstration of AI fashion talk. I could approach some AI safety agency and try and get some funding, make a career in regulatory.

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