Refusing to reduce complex reality into slogans and clichés since 19XX

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  • That’s 99.9% of people. Unless you’re a head of state or in some other way in highly influential or powerful position you’ve got nothing to worry about. You can never completely cover your tracks online. The best you can do is make it difficult enough for people to track you that they go with someone else instead. It’s also good practice to reming yourself of what the actual threat model is. Who do you want to stay hidden from?

    It doesn’t take much to lose a stalker but if it’s big tech you’re trying to hide from then all you need is a cable cutter.








  • I don’t see him claiming AI would do that. He very clearly says that he hopes this would be the case.

    That pretty much aligns with what I said about this a few days back in a different thread:

    Humans are inherently flawed. Even the best ones are biased, emotional, irrational and easily manipulated. My (perhaps) unpopular opinion is that politics will never run like a well-oiled machine that treats everyone fairly for as long as they’re run by people.

    A truly benign, aligned and independent AGI system is the only thing I can even imagine that could at least in theory offer the kind of governing system we actually need. And I truly mean an independent agent with our well-being as the guiding principle. Not one with an inbuilt bias toward who made it.

    Now, whether that’ll ever be actually possible is a different story but the “best case scenario” for a human-run government and an AI-run government are light-years apart.