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> People will complain all day long about the total incompetence or even criminal nature of every human government in recorded history, but when it comes to the
by rebelos 4y ago
> People will complain all day long about the total incompetence or even criminal nature of every human government in recorded history, but when it comes to the prospect of an entity with hypothetically superior intelligence taking over, they want to prevent it!
This reductive drivel at the very end of the post nullified any credibility the author may have had.
- bee_rider 4y agoThe apparent claim that he is the only one who's put any effort into measuring world GDP also stretched believably.
- joe_the_user 4y agoI can't actually find that statement in the video but if he said that, I'd say it's brilliant. The thing about the "AI safety" nerds is ... if some vast corporate entity were to create a truly god-like computer program, whether the program escapes the control of its masters is a problem for the corporate entity but just fact of thing being created and being in the hands of this entity would be the problem everyone else would face. And more broadly, if we haven't done much about the general sickness of society, what chance should we expect against a final problem of this beyond-human-control AI. Bad "reductionism" points toward too simplistic solution. Good "reductionism" debunks bad but supposedly-sophisticated solutions. This is Good reductionism imo.