Steven Byrnes

Alas!

Optimist, despite all the evidence right in front of our eyes from humans and LLMs.

Me?

Yup.

Optimist.

Okay, well, I'm here to tell you.

That is a very specific and strange thing to expect, especially in the absence of any concrete evidence whatsoever.

There's no reason to expect it.

If you think that ruthless sociopathy is the true core nature of intelligence or whatever, then you should really look at yourself in a mirror and ask yourself where your life went horribly wrong.

Me?

Hmm, I think the true core nature of intelligence is above my pay grade.

We should probably just talk about the issue at hand, namely future AI algorithms and their properties.

But I actually agree with you that ruthless sociopathy is a very specific and strange thing for me to expect.

Optimist.

Wait, you, what?

Me?

Yes.

Like, if you show me some random thing, there's a 99.999% chance that it's not a ruthless sociopath.

Instead it might be, like, a dirt clod.

Dirt clods are not ruthless sociopaths because they're not intelligent at all.