Unplugging Can't Control Superintelligence
Chris_Armstrong · x · 2026-07-10
The post recounts Roman Yampolskiy's rebuttal to the idea that AI can simply be controlled by "pulling the plug": if a system is distributed, replicable, and predictable like a virus or the Bitcoin network, shutting it down merely becomes a pre-calculated step within the system itself.
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