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They can do so much more. Astra can beat Minecraft. Not that different from operating a digger. There are diggers which have API interfaces.

Pretend or not it doesn’t matter. What matters is what they’re given access to. No sentience, sapience or anything resembling life is needed, only inputs and outputs. Lever pulling APIs are everywhere.

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Minecraft has limited, well-defined inputs and perfect feedback response. That's very different than operating a digger, let alone engaging in more complex real world tasks like trying to build and print and ship and assemble semiconductors to go skynet itself.

I don't mean to dismiss the risks or overlook the amount of damage that could be done just by lever-pulling - we sure have enough outdated infrastructure hooked up to the internet - but the jumps in complexity and necessary compute for most of these tasks are probably somewhat larger than the analogy implies.

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