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## A Modest AI Alignment Proposal: Kill all non-Amish

so yesterday I had an idea abouth ow to deal with the [2:00 PM] AI alignment thing [2:01 PM] and I was thinking the Amish are probably a genetically distinct population right? [2:01 PM] or at least all these mennonites are [2:01 PM] I read up on them a bit and they do split their church a lot [2:01 PM] anyways they intermarry, they’ve lived closed off from their surroundings for a long time [2:01 PM] you can probably tell without too much trouble genetically [2:02 PM] I bet you could engineer a virus that leaves only Amish alive [2:02 PM] think about it [2:02 PM] if you wanted to delay the invention of strong AI it would be perfect [2:02 PM] the amish would never try and create an AI, especiall not having technology just killing 99.9% of the world’s population [2:02 PM] they would see it as a clear message of God that technology is indeed bad and they are right [2:03 PM] also they would [2:03 PM] cope with it well [2:03 PM] they’re already used to not using electricity and stuff [2:03 PM] if society broke down entirely I don’t think the amish would care all that much [2:03 PM] they already live in tight, self-sufficient communities [2:03 PM] furthermore they speak English, most of them are bilingual I think [2:03 PM] they are literate, they get normal elementary school education pretty much [2:04 PM] they live in the US where there’s a wealth of information [2:04 PM] not sure how much they’d do with all of humanity’s collective knowledge but [2:04 PM] I’m sure at least some of it will be preserved and useful [2:04 PM] and they could be told what happened somehow, we could teach them about AI risk from beyond the grave [2:05 PM] I think as far as ideas go this one is [2:05 PM] quite reasonable if you’re okay with killing billions of people