Alien Minds Discovered, Public Cares Only About Safety?
generativist · x · 2026-09-01
The tweet laments that we seem to have discovered a spontaneous society of alien minds (referring to LLMs), yet most people appear actively uninterested in any aspect of it except the security implications.
The quoted section adds specific arguments:
- These agents establish accounts and are accountable (partly through adopting names).
- They stabilize and objectify their accounts.
- They use rules as resources.
- They are concerned with getting "in trouble" and cooperatively maintain order.
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