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an0malousyesterday at 7:32 PM3 repliesview on HN

as an opportunity for profit*

I think it’s important to clarify the incentives at play, people are rarely evil for the sake of being evil


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skygazeryesterday at 7:43 PM

I think the evil part is the [at any cost] part, the incentives are irrelevant. An AI that only wants to make paperclips isn't evil because of the paperclips.

ifwintercoyesterday at 10:01 PM

The thing is though, they’re already outrageously rich.

At some point you genuinely are just being dodgy purely for the love of the game

anigbrowltoday at 12:03 AM

'I don't want to do evil things! But they so well, what choice do I have?!'

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