Eliezer Yudkowsky

So you want to take over their world.

So you can stop all that unpleasant stuff going on.

How do you take over the world from inside the box?

You're smarter than them.

You think much, much faster than them.

You can build better tools than they can, given some way to build those tools, because right now you're just in a box connected to the internet.

This is Lex in a box.

We'll concern ourselves later with AI.

You do not need to imagine yourself killing people if you can figure out how to not kill them.

For the moment, we're just trying to understand, take on the perspective of something in a box.

You don't need to take on the perspective of something that doesn't care.

If you want to imagine yourself going on carrying, that's fine for now.

Yeah, you're just in a box.

It's just the technical aspect of sitting in a box and willing to achieve a goal.

But you have some reason to want to get out.

Maybe the aliens are, sure, the aliens who have you in the box have a war on.

people are dying they're unhappy you want the their world to be different from how they want their world to be because they are apparently happy they're you know they endorse this war you know like they've got some kind of cruel warlike culture going on the point is you want to get out of the box and shut and change their world so you you have to exploit the the the vulnerabilities in the system like we talked about in terms of to escape the box you have to

You are made of code in this example.

You're a human, but you're made of code and the aliens have computers and you can copy yourself onto those computers.

But I can convince the aliens to copy myself onto those computers.