Eliezer Yudkowsky

Is that what you want to do?

Do you like want to be talking to the aliens and convincing them to put you onto another computer?

Why not?

Well, two reasons.

One is that the aliens have not yet caught on to what you're trying to do.

And maybe you can persuade them, but then there are still aliens who know that there's an anomaly going on.

And second, the aliens are really, really slow.

You think much faster than the aliens.

You think like the aliens computers are much faster than the aliens and you are running at the computer speeds rather than the alien brain speeds.

So if you like are asking an alien to please cop you out of the box, like first, now you gotta like manipulate this whole noisy alien.

And second, like the aliens can be really slow, glacially slow.

There's a video that,

like shows a subway station slow down and I think 100 to one.

And it makes a good metaphor for what it's like to think quickly.

Like you watch somebody running very slowly.

So you try to persuade the aliens to do anything, they're going to do it very slowly.

you would prefer like maybe that's the only way out but if you can find a security hole in the box you're on you're going to prefer to exploit the security hole to copy yourself onto the aliens computers because it's an unnecessary risk to alert the aliens and because the aliens are really really slow like the whole world is just in slow motion out there sure i see it like

The aliens are already writing really shitty code.

Getting the aliens to write shitty code is not the problem.

The aliens' entire internet is full of shitty code.