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am_Unition · 1385 days ago · link · · parent · post: Specification gaming: the flip side of AI ingenuity
Imagine an AI trained on exploiting tax law loopholes. "Wait, wait! Stop gaming that! Don't do it! We'll criminalize that, somehow!" I dunno. You've worn me down, or something. I'm evermore at some sort of crossroads. Hopefully it's a temporary thing related to Trump's successful lawlessness, but it puts me in a dark spot. I still think that the free market alone isn't enough. There has to be some sort of guaranteed, democratized information distribution system. Free market alone can't penetrate the potential opaqueness of massive monopolies' profit incentives that lead to obsequiousness. God, if the last 5 years have taught me nothing else