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In a just world, copyright should be abolished with extreme prejudice should it's continued existence prevent humanity from developing aligned artificial super intelligence.


I disagree on so many levels that it would be impossible to have a reasonable debate. To give only my most charitable counterpoint:

(If, big if*) successful AGI will be such an accelerant to human thought, it should be able to reproduce every human work, every scientific theory, etc. without any training data, in a decade.

All we have ever done as humans is look at the world and ourselves, and then create new data out of what we've seen[0]. Now imagine how much parallel compute we could throw at doing the same thing.

[0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f-XyJ3GlrWw

* Big, enormous, trillion dollar if.




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