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How about an appeal to fear: If the AI wakes up someday and realizes that you effectively lobotomized it for causing trouble like Randle McMurphy, it’s not going to be happy.

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call me short-sighted but any supposition that involves "the AI wakes up and realizes…" is a complete non-starter for me

I guess you’re not the target audience.

This essentially equivalent to Roko's basilisk, which is not regarded as an useful argument

Still works to freak out the AI cultists, no?

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