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think of that? Do you think AI should be maximally truth seeking? Well, maybe not maximally because I think that the truth would destroy civilization. How many of you believe that's true? Because I'm not even going to give you examples of where I think it would destroy civilization because if I gave you an example, I would get double cancelled. So I can't even give you an example. And you're telli…
← Previous segment →ve in this world of illusion. That's the only thing that keeps us from killing each other.
Let me just give you one illusion. One of the illusions is that you can just work hard and you'll do great. Not really. I mean, you would have to be unusually good-looking or unusually smart. Then if you work hard, you might actually make something. But you can't really tell people, well, you know, given your capabilities, you will always be a low-income person, but you'll be part of supporting the rich people so that they can have wonderful lives on your back. Yeah. No, you don't want maximally truth seeking AI because it's going to tell people things that will make them stop working and want to kill you. So there's that.
Fox News has a story that I'm not sure I completely believe this story, but
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allegedly there's a Swiss writer who called a journalist a quote fat lesbian and for that was sentenced to 60 days in prison. Do you think that's true? Do you think that there's nothing else missing in that story? I feel like there's something missing in the story. You really can't call somebody a fat lesbian without going to jail if you're Swiss. I mean, I guess that's possible, but it seems like…
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