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AI is not alien, it's us
- LrnByTeach 4y agoI believe the following summarizes the article's main theme. > AIs are not alien; they were conceived and built by humans and trained on the collected work output of humans, so AIs are more human than human; they are humanity concentrated and compressed. > Soon we will start feeding the resulting concoction into every individual intravenously... giving all of us the power of the whole. >Any civilization that lasts long enough would create this same technology, it’s just too obvious and too effective, and we now know it’s achievable.
- pbw 4y agoThe last 1/3 is really about existential risk of any kind, beyond AI. And it says our relatively small Minimum Viable Population (~500) might allow us to bounce back from even really bad disasters, like nuclear war or an extremely deadly pandemic.