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Comment on Assuming a button that, every time you push it, your intelligence goes up. The obvious and sane thing to do is to push the button all day. Yes? No? Maybe? Is there something that I'm missing here?

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snooggums@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Even if only 10% of the world sucks, that is enough for t"he world sucks" to be accurate. It is higher than that, and barely anything that happens doesn't include something negative as an outcome.

Community celebrations often uplift most people while ostracizing a portion of the population. Many people see things that could uplift everyone as zero sum games and then make sure they end up that way. Many times there are glaringly obvious solutions that are either held back or are implemented and then completely undone in short order by regressive groups. Even recognizing how many positive sounding slogans are blatant lies to mislead the masses, but everyone has fallen for them, is seriously depressing.

And all of that could be easily understood by the average person if they didn't want to believe the positive stuff was true and that those that speak up about unfair treatment are just seeing things wrong.

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dope@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
That’s just your intelligence level talking. A couple whacks on the button and you’ll be thinking something completely different.

“See, it’s just your Matrix pod needs a new filter.”

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fubbernuckin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Alright, become infinitely intelligent, create some ai to take over the world, and using your superintelligence, solve the alignment problem and make everything perfect for everyone.

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- snooggums@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Won't work because people really hate things being obviously forced onto them, even positive things.
  
  Plus I would be smart enough to know that it is a futile endeavor in the long run even if it was successful.
  
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  - dope@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    You’d be smart enough to be sneaky about it. Play the old “inflame their passions” then “supply a satisfying rationale for said passions” propaganda kung fu.
    
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  - fubbernuckin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    You’d also be smart enough to work around it. You’d be able to strategically convince the right people to implement it, and convince enough people to support it for it to go through, then the remaining detractors are either propagandized into liking it (like how business and governments do things now, but much better), or they remain in a small minority who will never change their minds, but aren’t important because nobody else cares.
    
    Or you could use your superintelligence to make make an ai that makes people okay with it in the same way the hypothetical earworm virus does youtu.be/-JlxuQ7tPgQ?si=yCSfctxpmaOdbnTd
    
    Or there’s some way that none of us could possibly come up with that would simultaneously work perfectly and is completely ethical. There’s no way to say, but saying it definitely won’t ever work i think is just due to a lack of imagination in this case.
    
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