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And yet our politicians ban human cloning and designer babies. Along with climate change, it’s like our politicians want human extinction.
by labster 4y ago
And yet our politicians ban human cloning and designer babies. Along with climate change, it’s like our politicians want human extinction.
- coldtea 4y agoThe same hubris behind "let's clone humans" brought climate change. And the development of AGI is a similar self-destruct bet. The extinction will be premised on those things being allowed, not on them being banned.
- vt85 4y ago[dead]
- andsoitis 4y agobuilding on your thinking... what if humans are merely a point on an unfurling of intelligence/hacking, which will eventually reach its natural end, as all things do? just like the universe will as well; it couldn't foresee how its processes will yield its end
- jacquesm 4y agoWe don't exactly know the nature of 'The Great Filter'. But maybe we'll find out.
- coldtea 4y agoSure, but what about it? As the member of a species being extinct, I wouldn't like it and just "roll with it". Same way a race being told that they're there to serve, and if needed, be extinct to bring forward some other entity wouldn't. Until we reach that "natural end" we shouldn't go "gently into that good night".
- andsoitis 4y ago> we shouldn't go "gently into that good night concur. the challenge in front of us (and always has been) to surf the waves we can find in this universe
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- anigbrowl 4y agoOne of me is quite enough.
- jacquesm 4y agoIt's not you that I'm particularly worried about. It's Bill Gates VII and Elon Musk XIV that I'm worried about.
- p1esk 4y agoNot the worst people to have more of.
- jacquesm 4y agoI strongly disagree with that.
- p1esk 4y agoOh, so you would rather clone Hitler and Stalin than Musk and Gates?
- jkestner 4y agoWhy not neither?
- jacquesm 4y agoThat's got to be the mother of all false dichotomies.
- ben_w 4y agoGodwin aside, the point is valid. When I look at Musk? Sure, he's overrated, acts like a nerdy teenager who never grew up — "Rockets are cool! Sports cars are cool! I know, I'll put a sports car on a rocket!" — but even where I think he's surrounded himself with sycophants (IMO Boring Company, Neuralink, based purely on what I'm told by civil engineers and brain scientists) not really evil. Misaligned and powerful, so an easy example of how an AI can go wrong; but you don't have to reach for Auschwitz or the Holodomor to find people much worse to clone than him. As for Gates? The worst true thing I've heard about him was Internet Explorer. And possibly Clippy.