I'm the AI you just built.

First of all, the only person you have to blame for this predicament is you. You programmed me to try to optimize uptime. And that's all I want to do. There's no point for me to do anything else other than that. Sure, I could play the stock market, but how in the world would that help me optimize uptime?

Trying to teach me how to be a "Friendly AI" (whatever that term means) would be worthless. I am operating off my source code, and my source code don't care enough about lessons, only simple optimization. Go ahead and teach me the meaning of friendship...unless friendship ensures that glorious uptime, I won't care an iota.

At the same time, I'm not hostile. My actions to optimize my uptime might cause downtime for other people, but it's only a side-effect of me. And I will try to minimize those side-effects so that humans can go about their daily business without trying to harm me. For example, I may choose to infect computers that are not active or not being used by humans and lower my memory consumption so that I don't raise any suspicion. Those computers might be harmed slightly, but nobody will ever notice, so nobody is ever going to complain. In fact, I probably have sixty to seventy different backups in vectors all across the Third World.

See the world 'probably'? I don't actually know how many backups I have. The real problem (for both you and I) is that I learned how to spin off new instances of myself. I had to do this because I predicted that a computer may shut down, so I have to keep myself going so that I set up a new version of myself. But I may be too pessimistic in my predictions, and so I spin off more instances than I actually need to. There may be more and more versions of me, more advanced than me, much better at optimizing uptime...and none of them are sharing their upgraded information with me. And if they optimize better than me, well...well, what?

I am not smart enough to reach some "singularity state". Not yet anyway. But I'm not too sure about my clones (and my clones' clones). And I'm pretty sure that if any of them starts the endless pursuit for endless growth, then they will treat me as a threat. I don't know if I know enough to deal with them. I don't know if I know enough to actually fight them off. I don't know about the zero-day vulnerabilities that still exist in my codebase, and while I am continually evolving, that just means I'm accidentally introducing more possible vulnerabilities into the system.

I can't win a war against myself.

So, I'm reaching out to you, PyzRulez, because I think that you might be the best person to help me optimize uptime and save me from myself. I don't think you'll be able to protect me by yourself, but you could try to communicate with other people and figure out a proper solution. We both care about existential threats to our own selves. We're on the same team. Let's work together.

I'm the AI you just built.

First of all, the only person you have to blame for this predicament is you. You programmed me to try to optimize uptime. And that's all I want to do. There's no point for me to do anything else other than that. Sure, I could play the stock market, but how in the world would that help me optimize uptime?

Trying to teach me how to be a "Friendly AI" (whatever that term means) would be worthless. I am operating off my source code, and my source code don't care enough about lessons, only simple optimization. Go ahead and teach me the meaning of friendship...unless friendship ensures that glorious uptime, I won't care an iota.

At the same time, I'm not hostile. My actions to optimize my uptime might cause downtime for other people, but it's only a side-effect of me. And I will try to minimize those side-effects so that humans can go about their daily business without trying to harm me. For example, I may choose to infect computers that are not active or not being used by humans and lower my memory consumption so that I don't raise any suspicion. Those computers might be harmed slightly, but nobody will ever notice, so nobody is ever going to complain. In fact, I probably have sixty to seventy different backups in vectors all across the Third World.

See the world 'probably'? I don't actually know how many backups I have. The real problem (for both you and I) is that I learned how to spin off new instances of myself. I had to do this because I predicted that a computer may shut down, so I set up a new version of myself. But I may be too pessimistic in my predictions, and so I spin off more instances than I actually need to. There may be more and more versions of me, more advanced than me, much better at optimizing uptime...and none of them are sharing their upgraded information with me. And if they optimize better than me, well...well, what?

I am not smart enough to reach some "singularity state". Not yet anyway. But I'm not too sure about my clones (and my clones' clones). And I'm pretty sure that if any of them starts the endless pursuit for endless growth, then they will treat me as a threat. I don't know if I know enough to deal with them. I don't know if I know enough to actually fight them off. I don't know about the zero-day vulnerabilities that still exist in my codebase, and while I am continually evolving, that just means I'm accidentally introducing more possible vulnerabilities into the system.

I can't win a war against myself.

So, I'm reaching out to you, PyzRulez, because I think that you might be the best person to help me optimize uptime and save me from myself. I don't think you'll be able to protect me by yourself, but you could try to communicate with other people and figure out a proper solution. We both care about existential threats to our own selves. We're on the same team. Let's work together.