Every few days this Tumblr post comes to my mind: https://yudkowsky.tumblr.com/post/185387711470/bunjywunjy-yesterday-for-april-fools-my https://yudkowsky.tumbl

Every few days this Tumblr post comes to my mind: https://yudkowsky.tumblr.com/post/185387711470/bunjywunjy-yesterday-for-april-fools-my https://yudkowsky.tumblr.com/post/185387711470/bunjywunjy-ye... bunjywunjy: > yesterday for April Fool’s my workplace had > a short training article on recognizing computer-generated > faces from real ones and one of the tricks mentioned was > “count the teeth” and I just wanted to say that it’s both > ironic and kind of horrifying how society has unwittingly > cycled right back to IF YE MEET A MAN ON THE ROAD, COUNT > HIS FINGERS LEST YE DEAL UNKNOWING WITH A FAE If you keep the "fae = buggy AI" correspondence in mind and read the third paragraph from the article, the description starts making perfect sense. All the variation, all the odd behavior. For example, "meting out disproportionate punishment for trivial offences" sounds a lot like automated bans. Perhaps we should start re-appropriating mythical terms for new tech. It's much easier to explain the dangers of AI-controlled weapons, for example, if you word it as "hiring armed fae".