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Re:‘The Godfather of A.I.’ Leaves Google and Warns of Danger... by skulk on Monday May 01, 2023 @03:26PM (#35777851)
> creating equally powerful adversaries outside of your light cone.

If we're still bound by special relativity (since you said no FTL), there is nothing outside of your light cone.

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Re:‘The Godfather of A.I.’ Leaves Google and Warns of Danger... by moonchrome on Monday May 01, 2023 @03:32PM (#35777933)
I meant in the time it would take to synchronize/align
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Re:‘The Godfather of A.I.’ Leaves Google and Warns of Danger... by jamiek88 on Monday May 01, 2023 @05:07PM (#35779170)
Does time matter to a functionally immortal machine?

They could have a super slow clock speed to account for distance and anything truly outside of their light cone might as well not exist.

If you have trillions of years does it matter if a thought takes a million years or so?

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Re:‘The Godfather of A.I.’ Leaves Google and Warns of Danger... by XorNot on Monday May 01, 2023 @06:35PM (#35780208)
This is really key: humans think about everything in finite, human lifetimes. We have no backups, archives nothing - when we die knowledge and experience vanishes.

This wouldn't be true for an AI. Death would be optional.

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Re:‘The Godfather of A.I.’ Leaves Google and Warns of Danger... by thfuran on Monday May 01, 2023 @06:56PM (#35780447)
If it's large enough, wouldn't cosmic inflation eventually remove the extremities from each other's light cones?
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Re:‘The Godfather of A.I.’ Leaves Google and Warns of Danger... by skulk on Monday May 01, 2023 @08:27PM (#35781398)
That's true, but once something is outside of your light cone it does not matter what it does, it may as well not even exist to you.
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Re:‘The Godfather of A.I.’ Leaves Google and Warns of Danger... by thfuran on Monday May 01, 2023 @09:09PM (#35781791)
Yeah, they can't accomplish much as adversaries. Except maybe make you worry that they're out there somewhere being better than you. And you can never prove otherwise.
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