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August 15, 1977 - The Wow! signal : radio signal detected by Ohio State University's Big Ear radio telescope in the United States. It was then used to support the search for extraterrestrial intelligence

u/Flimsy_Hand_1233 — 6 days ago
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An AI safety researcher wrote 30 pages on how to escape the simulation. He never argues we're in one.

Through the looking glass...

An AI safety researcher wrote 30 pages on how to escape the simulation. He never argues we're in one.

He asks an engineering question instead — and walks into a trap.

AI safety spends millions on "boxing": sealing a superintelligence in a sandbox it can't escape. But if our universe is simulated, it's just a very large box with us inside it. Same problem, opposite ends.

So one of these is false:

  • We can permanently contain a superintelligent AI
  • We can escape the simulation

Both can't be true. Pick.

u/Dazzling_Albatross10 — 11 days ago