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> Building safe superintelligence (SSI) is the most important technical problem of our time.

Isn't this a philosophical/psychological problem instead? Technically it's solved, just censor any response that doesn't match a list of curated categories, until a technician whitelists it. But the technician could be confronted with a compelling "suicide song":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloomy_Sunday



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