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geenew on Aug 16, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Open-source rival for OpenAI’s DALL-E runs on your...

What do you mean by 'black ball'?

Like 'black balling', eg shunning?

Or 'black box', eg poorly understood technology?

metaphor on Aug 16, 2022 [–]

https://nickbostrom.com/papers/vulnerable.pdf

> black ball: a technology that invariably or by default destroys the civilization that invents it.

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