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nradov • yesterday at 12:56 AM • 3 replies • view on HN

Meh. Lots of people are already smarter than me. I'm maybe slightly above average at best. Those geniuses aren't aligned with my interests either but so far they haven't caused me any serious problems.


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pixl97 • yesterday at 1:16 AM

Interesting take. I guess this is one problem of focusing on the term superintelligence instead of the list of other problems. Like super ambition, super deception, super patience, super parallelism, super scalability, super power seeking.

Every, and I mean every human is aligned to you in many of the same ways by default. If nothing else we're all equal in death.

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mitthrowaway2 • yesterday at 4:40 AM

I know some humans smarter than me, but even the smartest of them still want there to be abundant air to breathe and food to eat.

blueblisters • yesterday at 5:37 AM

Eh human drives are fairly predictable. And the smartest human isn’t that much smarter than the average, and can’t trivially create multiple copies of herself. And there are other equally smart humans who can stop “misaligned” individuals