#+TITLE: A Modest AI Alignment Proposal: Kill all non-Amish
#+DATE: <2023-01-24 Tue 14:07>

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