Reminds me of the old trick on HTML forms where you use CSS to make one of the form fields invisible to humans and reject any submission that filled in that field.
charonn0
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Dragons, giants, monsters, that sort of thing. They weren't entirely wrong.
Information superhighway
It's pretty much as clean going into the pipe as it is coming out. Water pipes are kept pressurized so that any cracks or breaks push water out instead of letting contaminants in.
The problem is that an AI built to maximize paperclips might conclude that converting the planet to paperclips is an acceptable cost of maximizing paperclip production. It might understand why humans think it's bad to convert the planet, but disagree. It would need to be explicitly programmed to prioritize human life over paperclips.
otherwise we would just switch it off
If it were super-intelligent, it could probably trick us into leaving it turned on.
A paperclip maximizer driven by self-preservation? What could possiblie go wrong?
Pirate King: HE DID?!? ... oh... oh, yes so he did... I was there.
Are there examples of censorship or prior restraint you'd like to highlight?
Ctrl-F "plato"
Required reading
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Yet Trump can declassify documents by thought alone.
...are non-US peanut butters less viscous?