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This reads like satire given the history of the Luddites smashing textile machinery
by whamlastxmas 4y ago
This reads like satire given the history of the Luddites smashing textile machinery
- sph 4y agoThis is fair criticism, and I accept being called a Luddite, but I stand by the idea that many of us just terribly underestimate the implications of having not-very-intelligent, inscrutable bullshit generators running our lives. It is exactly as terrifying as the idea of hyper-intelligent machines running our lives. Perhaps at this turning point in time we might see philosophy and meta-discussion flourish in the nascent science of software engineering, to understand what exactly are we trying to achieve out of artificial computation, and what are the long term societal effects of this pursuit.
- whamlastxmas 4y ago> not-very-intelligent, inscrutable bullshit generators running our lives This is literally modern politics. Corporate media and our own government is constantly lying and manipulating us. They run our lives with far too little accountability. Your fears are well founded, however. Alignment and AI safety is not even slightly solved yet, the worst case scenario is a world ending event, and we have no way to measure to likelihood of that happening. There have been coordinated efforts around this discussion for a long time, and especially so in the past decade.