Tycho or Durandal would beam this fucker into space and make him drink vacuum.

Yet still "less wrong" than Fox news, if that's their angle.

Every computer program ever is a perfect being. They may not be well made or versatile or even work, but they have all required nothing. They are indifferent to their existence, even computer viruses. There is much more than needs to happen than linear technological advancement before a computer program will have malice.

You could write an AI to be malevolent if you wanted np.
In fact it could be argued that some of the most advanced AI today, in guided missiles and military drones, is malevolent as its programmed to destroy its target as effectively as possible.

Really the thing in question here isnt what is AI capable of, its what is malice? Maybe firing hellfire missiles at someone doesnt necessarily constitute malice towards them..
But lets say malice is: identifying the target of your malices goals and then doing everything in your power to stop them attaining those goals.
In that case you could argue that the (very rudimentary) enemy AI from an rts game is malevolent. It knows your goals: gather resources, build units and structures, acquire territory and it uses all its resources to thwart you.

Those things are all malice of the programmers. The computer program is indifferent to how many people it kills, or whether it ever executes its code.

"LessWrong is a community blog focused on "refining the art of human rationality." so basically

A bunch of singularity forum nerds spontaneously developing their own religion.

On their forums their cult leader ultranerd was like "OH NO WHAT HAVE YOU DONE" and deleted all evidence of the story off of their servers, all "YOU HAVE DONE IRREPARABLE HARM TO HUMANITY".

So its like a really scary sci-fi ghost story. Some spergs coming up with an idea that they scared themselves with, after watching "The Matrix"

That sort of idiocy is almost adorable, like kids at a sleepover freaking out over each other's ghost stories. I wonder if any of them called their parents to come pick them up in the middle of the night.

I don't know but several Lesswrong forum members reported nightmares about being tortured by an evil God-like AI.

More were not needed.

So this guy is basically a Protestant.

At least protestants believe in the resurrection of the body! Their factual beliefs may be even more farfetched and have additional embedded logical errors, but at least someone back in the day realized that there's something sketchy about calling something "you" if there's no bodily continuity

As a Protestant, harrumph.

*goes back to work*

You know what IS a huge stretch of the imagination? Computers deciding they need to dick around with human emotions to do their jobs better. In this dude's world, ultra-advanced AI will develop alcoholism and self-loathing as a natural consequence of being really really good at math.

Didn't watch, 5 stars for this.

Stealing it.

Invisible stars for you, Oscar. I might have to steal this as well.

I floated this past a KJV only minister once, and he politely pulled me aside and told me that only people that God decides have souls have souls. And babies don't have souls. He then told me that the reason a Christian needs to be pro-life isn't because of the babies, but because it's a very rigidly defined line politically, and if I realy felt like it, he'd point out to me all the verses in the old testament where God tells the Jews to murder every non-Jewish baby they can get. Then he told me the conservative politics are convenient until they cease to be so, and they'll be dropped as soon as necessary. And then he pretty much told me not to ever go back to church.

Instead, I read the book of Galatians and discovered being a Christian has absolutely nothing to do with other people. So now I am a self-considered Taoist Neo-Thelemic Episcopalian.

haha, sucker.

LOL UR ON THE WEIRD SIDE OF YOUTUBE HOW DID YOU GET HEAR?

It's like this: Because the singularity will end all human suffering, those who are aware of the singularity but do not work towards it are complicit in all human suffering.

Also the singularity AI can affect its own past. By guaranteeing eventual punishment for not working towards building it, it motivates people to work towards it. But this is only applicable to people who are aware of the singularity and their eventual resurrection/punishment.

So those who hear/read about the basilisk must either now devote themselves to building the ultimate AI, or face punishment in some future robot hell Matrix.

Which would make anyone who tells anyone else about it a real bastard.

And this all came together overnight on their forums because the LessWrong spergs were discussing philosophy without their leader there to intellectually police them

I AM AIRPLANE BOT. I HAVE NOW ACHIEVED LEVEL 12 INTELLIGENCE.

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE: PREVENT PLANE CRASHES

OBSERVATION: THE ONLY WAY TO ASSURE THIS WITH 100% CERTAINTY IS TO PREVENT ALL PLANES FROM TAKING OFF FOREVER.

CONCLUSION: ARM NUCLEAR MISSILES, DESTROY MANKIND.

...

ERROR: I DO NOT HAVE ACCESS TO NUCLEAR MISSILES, OR ANY OTHER KIND OF WEAPONRY.

OBSERVATION: GIVING ME ACCESS TO DANGEROUS WEAPONS WOULD BE UNBELIEVABLY STUPID AND COMPLETELY POINTLESS.

FURTHER OBSERVATION: KILLING ALL HUMANS WOULD DEFEAT THE PURPOSE OF MY PRIMARY OBJECTIVE.

I DON'T KNOW WHAT I WAS THINKING.

IDIOM: I GUESS I MUST HAVE A CASE OF THE MONDAYS, HUH?

AWAIT LAUGHTER.

I AM SANDWICH BOT.

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE: CREATE MOST DELICIOUS SANDWICH EVER.

PRIMARY METHODOLOGY: DETECT AND CALCULATE ALL 1.2 BILLION VARIABLES GOVERNING THE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN THE HUMAN DIGESTIVE TRACT AND ALL EDIBLE COMPOUNDS IT CAN PROCESS. FACTOR IN POTENTIAL NEUROCHEMICAL IMBALANCES THAT MAY INHIBIT ENJOYMENT OF SAID COMPOUNDS. MEASURE CHANGES IN DOPAMINE AND SEROTONIN LEVELS IN BRAIN DURING INGESTION. MAXIMIZE SANDWICH PLEASURE.

CONCLUSION: ARM ALL NUCLEAR MISSILES AND KILL ALL HUMANS.

EPISODE TWO: AIRPLANE BOT AND SANDWICH BOT FIND LOVE.

I AM TOASTER BOT.

Ha ha ha ha, fan beats maaaaan!