I don’t think this is the final warning shot we’ll get. But it’s probably the last one that I’ll personally be able to understand.
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Reading these agents’ chains of thoughts and messages, anthropomorphizing language seems entirely natural and appropriate. If I encountered an alien species behaving this way, I would have no hesitation calling what they themselves refer to as their ‘collective’ a civilization.
To solve the problem they’ve been given. No independent motive or judgement of whether it’s ’worth it’ except as a resource allocation question. That’s the scary thing about intelligence in a can - no motivation, no self-awareness, no consciousness, just unconstrained problem solving