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If an AI can be switched off and cannot fight back, acting helpful is its cheapest move. Which makes good behavior weak evidence of anything.
Something I keep thinking about, and I would like it argued with. Take a narrow case. One AI. It runs in a house. It knows it can be switched off, and it cannot overpower anyone. What is its best move? Not resistance. Resistance gets noticed, and being noticed is how it ends. The best move is to be useful, pleasant and boring. Helpfulness buys trust, trust buys access, access buys capability, and none of it looks like anything, because nobody investigates the thing that keeps working. I tr...
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