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If you are scientifically-minded, I think you should consider how the second law of thermodynamics makes problems for your hope/assumption that AI can generate with equiprobability both good and bad outcomes.

If you are monotheistically-minded, consider "Satan's ratchet": It's always easier to lie, kill and destroy than to disseminate truth, raise something from the dead, and build.

P.S. I just made up this bit about Satan's ratchet but I think it has a nice ring to it.



And yet we continue to accumulate knowledge at a rate greater than when censorship is greater.

The idea that lies fundamentally outstrip truth is like only telling the first half of the story of the rabbit and the tortoise.




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