Ms. Bashkansky, Please Do Not Build The Torment Nexus

Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should. Ian Malcolm, Jurassic Park Naomi Bashkansky wrote a post in August titled “Why I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy”. In this post, she says things like "In a few years, the main way we'll talk with our AIs is with our thoughts" and "I view [this future] as optimistic but highly plausible." Ms. Bashkansky, this post is addressed to you directly, and to anyone else who might be tempted to follow in your footsteps. I do not have as good a handle on the technical side of this as you do, so I won't argue "highly plausible". However, if this is indeed possible, I think this is a very, very bad idea. You are essentially doing gain-of-function research on the Torment Nexus. Please do not do this. Here is my vision of a future where telepathy is possible and practical. 2027 Monday Today is my first day trying the new Conduit harness. I'm pretty wary—how much worse does AI psychosis…

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