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Predicting Drunks Doesn't Make You Drunk
An AI trained to predict and imitate humans does not thereby become human inside, just as an actress who learns to perfectly predict and imitate every drunk in a bar does not become drunk - becoming drunk would actually impair the cognitive acuity needed to predict the drunks - so learning to predict human text does not give an alien architecture human values.
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Eliezer YudkowskyEvidence Quote
“if you take this alien with the extremely different internal mind architecture and train it to predict human beings... this is not going to thereby make it a human being anymore than learning how to predict drunk people will cause you to be internally become drunk”
Created: 6/14/2026, 2:10:11 AM
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