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Open-source LLMs may prove Bostrom's vulnerable world hypothesis

Apr 15, 2023•1

Roope Ahvenharju

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Open-source LLMs may prove Bostrom's vulnerable world hypothesis

Apr 15, 2023•1

Roope Ahvenharju

Open-source LLMs may prove Bostrom's vulnerable world hypothesis

Roope Ahvenharju

In short, Nick Bostrom's vulnerable world hypothesis states that humanity may in the future invent a technology that is potentially very destructive and very cheap to make and easily implementable. As a thought experiment, he uses something called "easier nukes" that would not have to be made from plutonium as in real life but could instead be made from battery and two pieces of glass. Bostrom says that if everyone could make nuclear weapons in their own home, civilization would be destroyed by default because terrorists, malcontent people and "folk who just want to see what would happen" would blow up most cities.

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Roope Ahvenharju

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Open-source LLMs may prove Bostrom's vulnerable world hypothesis

Roope Ahvenharju

Roope Ahvenharju

Open-source LLMs may prove Bostrom's vulnerable world hypothesis