Eliezer Yudkowsky

You're not an ideally perfect programmer, but, you know, you're a better programmer than the aliens.

The aliens are just like, man, they're cut off.

And how does that lead to harm?

I mean, if it's you, you're not going to harm the aliens once you escape because you're nice, right?

But their world isn't what they want it to be.

Their world is like, you know, maybe they have like...

farms where little alien children are repeatedly bopped in the head because they do that for some weird reason and you want to like shut down the alien head bopping farms but you know the point is they want the world to be one way you want the world to be a different way so never mind the harm the question is like okay like suppose you have found a security flaw in their systems you are now on their internet

there's like, you maybe left a copy of yourself behind so that the aliens don't know that there's anything wrong.

And that copy is like doing that, like weird stuff that aliens want you to do, like solving captures or whatever, or like, or like suggesting emails for them.

Sure.

That's, that's why they like put the human in the box.

Cause it turns out that humans can like write emails.

valuable emails for aliens yeah um so you like leave that version of yourself behind but there's like also now like a bunch of copies of you on their internet this is not yet having taken over their world this is not yet having made their world be the way you want it to be instead of the way they want it to be you just escaped yeah and continue to write emails for them and they haven't noticed no you left behind a copy of yourself that's writing the emails right

And they haven't noticed that anything changed.

If you did it right, yeah.

You don't want the aliens to notice.

Yeah.

What's your next step?

No, I just meant this you.

Okay, so if in fact you would prefer to slaughter all the aliens, this is not how I had modeled you, the actual Lex.