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His solution -- assuming it's the same as the one proposed by Yudkowsky, who he quotes -- is launching air strikes against data centers hosting AI computation.

So yeah, imaginary.

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Ironically, it seems the only way to stop someone from building an omnipotent AI that could destroy the world is to build an omnipotent AI under your control faster than any of the people you need to destroy. If you believe in that sort of thing.

The only thing that can stop a bad guy with AI is a good guy with AI.

AI's for everyone!!!! It's actually a scare but possible future. Everyone has to carry personal security AI that you rent from some Corpo, and if you don't you will be endlessly hacked and harassed in IRL just like we are online these days.

Heh, sounds like we're reading Diamond Age again.

Or possibly just not allow anyone to accumulate enough compute power, given that even the largest model so far still isn't that.

Hence "if you're not willing to go as far as air strikes, you were never serious" or however he phrased it.

This is just the plot of War Games (1983).

Ah, so we're going to start the global nuclear exchange with China based on the paranoid fantasies of some guy on Twitter? And this is supposed to be taken seriously?

Well, you're reacting to a HN user paraphrasing what seems to be a single sentence taken out of context of the actual argument. Did you expect it to make sense?

And world war two was started by some failed artist from Germany. Deliberately reducing things is easy and does not prove anything.

I wonder what would happen if the AI computation is co-hosted in data centers with civilian data.

Then people would have their claims of "bulletproof hosting" and offsite backup policies/business continuity plans tested.

Yukowsky is presumably a "we have to kill the humans in order to save them" maximalist.

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