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The Use of Knowledge in (AGI) Society

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How to build to break the intelligence curse

John Henry First Encounters the Steam Drill by Nick Danzi The AI labs are aiming to create AGI that could obsolete all human labor, severing the dependency that powerful actors have on the regular people. If they achieve this, they risk triggering the intelligence curse, leaving humans irrelevant and severing the social contract between regular people and powerful actors. The most ambitious labs are further aiming for a singleton—a single superintelligent system or steering committee with total control over the world—which would further cause unprecedented power concentration and create a…

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