Impossible subscription cancellation flows as an analogy for an unaligned AGI — company is simply following its reward function, leaving sad humans in its wake.

Apr 20, 2022 · 6:51 PM UTC

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... thankfully it's fairly straightforward to regulate this behavior, or refuse patronage to those who engage in it. Doing so with an immensely more powerful adversary is qualitatively different and far more of an open problem than anything on the road to AGI :-/
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Anyone care to elaborate?
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'leaving sad humans in its wake.' ....needs an abbr. like tl;dr, or ELI8. Perhaps just )))SHW
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Which subscription are you talking about?
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With all is cons, I love how #Apple centralizes and simplifies subscription management in the IPhone
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almost always deliberate too. 'let's make cancellation as hard as possible'.
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We need an aligned AGI to align individuals and institutions. =)
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i’m just here to make paperclips