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This is a good primer: https://acoup.blog/2022/10/21/collections-strategic-airpower-101/ https://acoup.blog/2022/10/21/collections-strategic-airpower... The p
by qsort 4y ago
This is a good primer:
https://acoup.blog/2022/10/21/collections-strategic-airpower-101/ https://acoup.blog/2022/10/21/collections-strategic-airpower...
The parallel with AI GP is making is very interesting. People at the time thought air power would be transformative in ways that didn't pan out, while missing more subtle applications.
- zarzavat 4y agoAGI isn't comparable with any prior technology because we have spent the last ~million years being the most intelligent thing on this planet, and AGI seeks to upset that. If you have to make a comparison, the most apt would be the introduction of invasive species to existing ecosystems. Any one existing species may be OK after the introduction of an invasive species to its ecosystem, but it usually ends badly and introducing invasive species is generally something we try to avoid doing to other species. Of course AGI will not compete with us for food, but it will completely destroy our present economic system by creating vast unemployment. Conditions of severe economic change with an unemployed population and huge amount of technological power in the hands of a few, seems ripe for producing totalitarianism.
- qsort 4y agoI have nothing to reply except that as far as I'm concerned this is fanfiction.
- zarzavat 4y agoIt's a potential future. Nobody knows what will happen post-AGI. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't think about it. I contend that people who think that it's going to be fine are probably extrapolating from their own recent past (i.e. their life has been relatively comfortable so far), rather than humanity's past, which is quite a bit darker.