“By training AIs to fight and defeat other AIs we can perhaps preserve a healthy balance in the new ecosystem … building AIs whose sole purpose was to predate upon existing AI models”

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https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/remarks-on-ai-from-nz

The mammals scurry about while T-Rex fights Triceratops. I like that Stephenson remembers McLuhan. His “optimistic take” is, inevitably, pretty dark. If AGI works there are no good futures left …

“preserving and advancing our own intelligence by holding at arms length seductive augmentations in order to avoid suffering the amputations that are their price”

Uh-no. Not happening.