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?

• 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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