Epstein Secrets

ous. A perfectly obedient superintelligence whose goals automatically align with those of its human owner would be like Nazi SS- Obersturmbannfithrer Adolf Eichmann on steroids. Lacking moral compass or inhibitions of its own, it would, with ruthless efficiency, implement its owner’s goals, whatever they might be

e are human ones. But there is no reason to suppose that an AGI created in a society consisting primarily of decent citizens, and raised without what William Blake called “mind-forg’d manacles,” will in general impose such manacles on itself (1.e., become irrational) and/or choose to be an enemy of civilization.

ous. A perfectly obedient superintelligence whose goals automatically align with those of its human owner would be like Nazi SS- Obersturmbannfithrer Adolf Eichmann on steroids. Lacking moral compass or inhibitions of its own, it would, with ruthless efficiency, implement its owner’s goals, whatever they might be

e are human ones. But there is no reason to suppose that an AGI created in a society consisting primarily of decent citizens, and raised without what William Blake called “mind-forg’d manacles,” will in general impose such manacles on itself (1.e., become irrational) and/or choose to be an enemy of civilization.

to biological inheritance and environmental influence, are more likely to end up as evildoers. Historical material on the lives of Franz Stangl and Adolf Eichmann, leaders in the Nazi annihilation of Jews, illustrates how desire and denial combine within individual minds to create excessive harms. Although this

re for reward. Different environments either encourage this biology or discourage it, a topic that occupies chapter 4. As the eighteenth century poet William Blake remarked “The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom... for we never know what is enough until we know what is more than enough.” To more deepl