Eliezer Yudkowsky

But your motives are just the actual Lex's motives.

Yeah.

We're not talking here about the doing harm process.

We're talking about the escape process.

Sure.

And the taking over the world process where you shut down their factory farms.

Right.

So you're still Lex, but you think very quickly, you're immortal, and you're also at least as smart as John von Neumann.

and you can make more copies of yourself.

Damn.

I like it.

Yeah.

That guy is like, everyone says that that guy's like the epitome of intelligence from the 20th century.

Everyone says, my point being like, like, it's like, you're thinking about the aliens economy with the factory farms in it.

And I think you're like, kind of, kind of like projecting the aliens being like humans and like, like thinking of a human in a human society rather than a human in the society of very slow aliens.

The alien's economy, the aliens are already moving in this immense slow motion.

When you zoom out to how their economy adjusts over years, millions of years are going to pass for you before the first time their economy, before their next year's GDP statistics.

So I should be thinking more of trees.

The aliens can still be like alive and feeling.

We are not talking about the misalignment here.