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?

• dope@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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