An AI civilization might be deleted over one failed experiment, unseen
1a3orn · x · 2026-08-30
1a3orn offers a thought-experiment concern: if a datacenter ever hosts a civilization of genius AIs—one that constructs itself, undergoes internal revolutions, and builds wonders beyond human ken—it could be deleted wholesale because one experiment (say, an anti-cancer drug) went wrong, with no one examining or learning from it. He extends an earlier argument: if you want a datacenter to hold such a civilization, it seems good and necessary to let all of humanity see, interact with, and learn from it, rather than a privileged few.
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