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Surprise T Rex
Apr 9, 2008

Dinosaur Gum

animist posted:

oh also, this short story got posted in the c-spam doomsday econ thread (i think??) and its really good. pretty solid examination of "but what if the machines turn on us???": https://rifters.com/real/shorts/PeterWatts_Malak.pdf

Yeah this is cool because it sort of gets to the center of "how innocuous rules can cause unintended behaviour" which, at least for the near future is a much bigger concern than the old sci-fi AI plot of a machine attaining full sentience and deciding that people cause bad stuff like ecological collapse and deciding to purge us.

I always like the "paperclip maximiser" thing for that too.

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