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		helen___keller on March 30, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter Writing a sandbox escape doesn’t mean escaping. If the universe is programmed by god, there might be some bug in memory safety in the simulation. Should God be worried that humans, being a sentient collectively-super-intelligent AI living in His simulation, are on the verge of escaping and conquering heaven? Would you say humans conquering heaven is more or less likely than GPT-N conquering humanity?

yellow_lead on March 30, 2023 [–]

> Would you say humans conquering heaven is more or less likely than GPT-N conquering humanity?

It's difficult to say since we have ~'proof' of humanity but no proof of the "simulation" or "heaven."

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