cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/48169514

Some fighters will receive bonuses in ‘stablecoins’ issued by Trump family business World Liberty Financial

The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) announced on Friday that it will pay bonuses to fighters in a form of cryptocurrency issued by Trump family business World Liberty Financial at the heavily publicized White House mixed martial arts event on Sunday.

The development connects the Trump family’s financial interests to the high-profile UFC competition being promoted on government property. The competition on the south White House lawn is scheduled for 14 June, Donald Trump’s birthday.

The UFC said some fighters will receive bonuses in World Liberty Financial crypto called “stablecoins”, whose value is pegged to the US dollar. World Liberty named the currency “USD1”.

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        15 hours ago

        Well, that’s why you need to be way smarter when setting your AI’s initial conditions. “Instruction: end all suffering” could indeed be extremely bad.

        Or … you just have to hope that your new superintelligent AI is intelligent enough to re-align itself … and does so with good intentions.

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          15 hours ago

          If it’s a super intelligence, why would it follow our instructions?

          Our current dumb LLM’s are already being weasily little fuckers.

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            15 hours ago

            If it’s a super intelligence, why would it follow our instructions?

            Depending on how it works, it may not be able to actually do anything, unless it starts out by wanting something. And it’s up to its creators to decide what it will initially want. Intelligence doesn’t necessarily make it any more likely to change what it wants – intelligence only makes it better at getting what it already wants.

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              15 hours ago

              Unfortunately, it seems that current LLMs are largely a black box, it’s already lying to us and hiding things. A super intelligent LLM would quite likely run rings around our attempt to monitor it.

              I also think the indication is that a super-intelligent LLM would “want” something. I don’t know you have consciousness without it.

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                14 hours ago

                You keep reading “LLM” when I say “AI”.

                I really don’t think LLMs will ever be superintelligent or true AI. They’re merely text prediction engines. Maybe an LLM will be part of a true AI – like the speech center of the AI’s brain. But the speech center alone can never be superintelligent … or even truly intelligent at all.

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                  13 hours ago

                  I’m saying whatever a true AI is going to be orders of magnitude more complex than LLM’s. The idea that it’ll be a machine we can fully control is a layer of fantasy on an already fantastical concept.