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oersted | on: Anthropic S-1
Then we regress back to relying on the fact that the ability of an average person (not) to be violent has inherent value. This has been the dominant factor in many moments in history.

Although if you have killer robots, then all bets are truly off, and we go the way of the dodo, literally.

(I don’t actually believe in this LessWrong-esque rhetoric, reality is more complicated, but it’s fun to muse about.)

EDIT: If oligarchs with magic AGI really don’t need our labor, nor are they concerned by our violence, then perhaps we become more like ants rather than dodos: we organize to help each other, creating a somewhat traditional economy around the scraps that don’t matter to the oligarchs, relying on obscurity and harmlessness to avoid getting toyed with a magnifying glass. I suppose that’s slightly better.

233mhz | parent | next
Farmers attacking king's armies weren't so different from an army of average joe with a hunting rifle attacking killer robots imho.

Even like 1-2% of the adult population going in the streets with makeshift weapons is enough to take over any country on this planet.

Data centers are extremely easy to disable too, take down power, data or both

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59percentmore | parent | next
>Although if you have killer robots, then all bets are truly off, and we go the way of the dodo, literally.

Bombs. You mean bombs. Throwing killer robots at a "problem" is like throwing knives or spears: you just gave the enemy your weapon. Unless they explode. But then you just wasted a lot of money on a really smart grenade.

TheArcane | parent | next
> Although if you have killer robots,

we already do..

intrasight | parent
The oligarchs should not be concerned about the masses. It's the president of the United States, with a wave of his hand, that will wipe out all the data centers when that becomes necessary. I'm predicting that will become necessary and will happen within five years. I'm predicting anthropic stock price goes to zero.
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