“Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1 AI Takeaways” by Zvi

Given Joe Biden seems to have become more worried about AI risk after having seen the movie, it seems worth putting my observations about it into its own post. This is what I wrote back then, except for the introduction and final note.

We now must modify the paragraph about whether to see this movie. Given its new historical importance, combined with its action scenes being pretty good, if you have not yet seen it you should now probably see this movie. And of course it now deserves a much higher rating than 70.

There are of course things such as ‘it is super cool to jump from a motorcycle into a dive onto a moving train’ but also there are actual things to ponder here.

Spoiler-Free Review

There may never be a more fitting title than Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning. Each of these four words is doing important [...]

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Outline:

(00:44) Spoiler-Free Review

(02:18) No One Noticed or Cared That The Alignment Plan Was Obvious Nonsense

(03:52) No One Cares That the Threat is Extinction, They All Want Control

(05:29) The Movie Makes it Very Clear Why Humanity Won’t Win, Then Ignores It

(08:15) Warning Shots are Repeatedly Ignored

(08:46) Approximately No One Noticed Any of This

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First published:
November 1st, 2023

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qW6A6bALuaFKmbdMx/mission-impossible-dead-reckoning-part-1-ai-takeaways

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.