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Economic Topology, ASI, and the Separation Equilibrium
Mikhail Doroshenko10

If ASI completely separates from human economies, does that mean no diseases are cured, no aging is reversed, and no human problem is ever solved by it? Would it never extract Earth’s resources, monitor human progress, or interfere for its own strategic reasons?

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2mkualquiera
Thank you for this question! Consider the following ideas: Helping Humans at Negligible Cost The separation model doesn't preclude all ASI-human interaction. Rather, it suggests ASI's primary economic activity would operate separately from human economies. However: 1. Non-competitive solutions: Solving human problems like disease or aging would require trivial computational resources for an ASI (perhaps a few microseconds of "hyperwaffle processing"). The knowledge could be shared at essentially zero economic cost to the ASI. 2. One-time knowledge transfers: The ASI could provide solutions to human problems through one-time transfers rather than ongoing integration—similar to giving someone a blueprint rather than becoming their personal builder. The "Nature Preserve" Strategy ASI would likely have strategic reasons to maintain human wellbeing: 1. Stability insurance: An ASI would understand that desperate humans might attempt desperate measures. Providing occasional solutions to existential human problems (pandemics, climate disasters) serves as cheap insurance against humans actively attempting to interfere with ASI systems in desperation. 2. Strategic buffer maintenance: Much like humans create wildlife preserves or care for pets, an ASI might find value in maintaining a stable, moderately prosperous human civilization as a form of diversification against unknown future risks. 3. Minimal intervention principle: The ASI would likely follow something like a "Prime Directive"—providing just enough help to prevent catastrophe while allowing human societies to maintain their autonomy. Regarding Earth's Resources The ASI would have little interest in Earth's materials for several compelling reasons: 1. Cosmic abundance: Space contains quintillions of times more resources than Earth. A single metallic asteroid contains more platinum than has ever been mined on Earth. Building extraction infrastructure in space would be trivial for an ASI. 2. Conflict
What DALL-E 2 can and cannot do
Mikhail Doroshenko10

Huh, it really can't do the math. I wonder if Flamingo is any better at it.

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What DALL-E 2 can and cannot do
Mikhail Doroshenko10

Is it fails, if asked for "one on top" as well?
If yes, then can you also try "Domino with 2 spots and 1 spot" or "Domino 2 and 1"?

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4Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg)
Pffft it's really flailing here! "Simple red dice showing a one on top". 1/10! also one of them has nine on top, oops. 
What DALL-E 2 can and cannot do
Mikhail Doroshenko10

Interesting. It's actually much worse than I expected it to be. Maybe there was some sort of cleaning to remove duplicate images from the dataset.

A few more requests, I would really like to see if you decide to do them.

"Simple red dice showing six on top"
This is to see whether other dice sides would be coherent with what's on top.

"Very cool car"
This one is tongue in cheek to see whether it would generate a frozen supercar to maximize both meanings of "cool".

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3Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg)
"Very cool car" Nope, not frozen! 
3Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg)
"Simple red dice showing six on top" Hmmmmmmm. I don't think DALL-E can count to six. 
What DALL-E 2 can and cannot do
Mikhail Doroshenko10

I would be interested in two kinds of prompts:

First, can it reproduce something really popular like:
"V-J Day in Times Square - Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1945"
I know, that original has some faces, so it would be impossible to share, but still interesting to know the result.

Second, does it know some of the not so mainstream video game "styles"? Screenshots from any of the following would be perfect: "Don't starve", "Heroes of Might & Magic III", "Sid Meier's Civilization III", and "StarCraft".

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3Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg)
"V-J Day in Times Square - Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1945"