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> Inverted triangle

That can't be the case my man. Even if there was a manager for every two employees below, the number of all managers at all levels would at most be equal to the number of employees at the lowest level given that:

x (lowest level) = x/2 (first) + x/4 (second) + x/8 (third) + ...

In reality, there are way more employees per manager and the levels of management is not infinite, so the ratio of managers to employees is way less than 1.


Would a superintelligence reach the conclusion that humans are a cancer on earth that must be destroyed? That's a better example at the core of the alignment issue. Some values that humans hold in high regard, like the continued existence of billions of humans on earth, may not be there in a non-human-biased superintelligence.


> Would a superintelligence reach the conclusion that humans are a cancer on earth that must be destroyed?

Does that seem intelligent? According to the imitation game?


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