AI Risk Forecasters = Dark Triad? Anonymous 8/13/2019 05:58:00 No. 5362 [Preview] [Reply] Actions report Hide Thread Hide Post From a Rolf Degen tweet "Machiavellists and psychopaths saw greater dangers in artificial intelligence, projecting their own malicious streaks onto the concept." https://econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/abs/10.1024/1421-0185/a000214
Anonymous 8/13/2019 05:59:00 No. 5364 [Preview] [Reply] Actions report Delete Hide Post >>/5362/ Rolf Degen should consider how he treats ants. Malice or even lack of sympathy are not necessary for human extermination to be convenient.
Anonymous 8/13/2019 06:05:00 No. 5369 [Preview] [Reply] Actions report Delete Hide Post >>/5362/ > Machiavellians think others aren't "basically good and kind", have pathologically low time preference and tend to pursue future flexibility maximization They sound more capable of empathizing with Clippy than other humans. Is this supposed to reflect badly on their ability to estimate AI risk? Someone please post the PDF here. I can't get it through Sci-Hub.
Anonymous 8/13/2019 06:05:00 No. 5370 [Preview] [Reply] Actions report Delete Hide Post >>/5369/ >>/5364/ The way you perceive AI risk varies with dark triad traits, people basically interpret AI risk to be omnipotent versions of themselves. Nobody let big yud near a paperclip factory
Anonymous 8/13/2019 06:06:00 No. 5374 [Preview] [Reply] Actions report Delete Hide Post >>/5362/ I hate this naive trend of attributing systemic issues to a lack of personal virtue. "It's the greedy bankers!" - change their fucking incentives, then!
Anonymous 8/13/2019 06:09:00 No. 5379 [Preview] [Reply] Actions report Delete Hide Post Lmao Well, I hate to say it but might is right. Humanity will either improve or be doomed.
Anonymous 8/13/2019 06:09:00 No. 5380 [Preview] [Reply] Actions report Delete Hide Post >>/5374/ Exactly. Incentives matter a lot.
Anonymous 8/13/2019 06:09:00 No. 5381 [Preview] [Reply] Actions report Delete Hide Post >>/5374/ I do hate that trend, but I don't really see it here.
Anonymous 8/13/2019 06:10:00 No. 5383 [Preview] [Reply] Actions report Delete Hide Post >>/5381/ Framing the issue of AI safety as "of course the machiavellian STEM autists would project their own failings onto AI" frees critics from the burden of having to think about Omohundro drives and instead plays to their strengths of armchair psychologizing and sneering at bad greys.