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> AI is vastly more dangerous and more urgent than climate change, than Russia No it isn't, and I say that as a user and Integrator of ML tech. Climate Change

> AI is vastly more dangerous and more urgent than climate change, than Russia No it isn't, and I say that as a user and Integrator of ML tech. Climate Change: Literally our planetary habitat becoming uninhabitable for our species. Russia: A country with one of the largest nuclear arsenals literally threatening a large portion of the world with nuclear annihilation. Excuse me when the prospect of changes in the economic landscape for white collar jobs doesn't look particularly frightening compared to such problems. Especially since we live in a day and age where 2 entire generations have lived most of their lives in almost constant economic upheavals anyway. As for all the AI-doomerism that's flying around the net: As long as no one can even give me a precise, quantifieable definition of "general intelligence", aka. one that doesn't include pointing at ourselves, and a method to measure how far AI is from that, I will work under the assumptions confirmed by what is measureable and observable: that what we have are still stochastic inference engines.

sno0ks 3y ago
Russia isn't "literally threatening a large portion of the world with nuclear annihilation". Any 'threat' they have issued has been in response to 'threats' issued by 'our' side... including at the time UK PM Liz Truss being willing to push the nuclear button against Russia. If that's not a threat then neither is Russia saying that they'll be willing to use nukes too. Our politicians together with our sycophantic media and their weapons salesmen talking heads really do spread the most egregious disinformation throughout every wartime situation we are involved in, by proxy or otherwise. Glass houses... stones...
- usrbinbash 3y ago
  > Any 'threat' they have issued has been in response to 'threats' issued by 'our' side Then please, link me the relevant statements. Liz Truss's (who btw. isn't Britains PM any more) remarks were made in late August 2022 [1]. The russian nuclear sabre-rattling started in February 2022 [2]. So who exactly has threatened russia with nuclear weapons to elicit these responses? Helping a souvereign nation defend itself against an invasion and protecting their land and people, is not a threat. Offering a souvereign nation to join a military pact is also not a threat. [1]: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/08/26/jfvn-a26.html https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/08/26/jfvn-a26.html [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_threats_during_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_threats_during_the_Rus...

sno0ks 3y ago

Russia isn't "literally threatening a large portion of the world with nuclear annihilation". Any 'threat' they have issued has been in response to 'threats' issued by 'our' side... including at the time UK PM Liz Truss being willing to push the nuclear button against Russia. If that's not a threat then neither is Russia saying that they'll be willing to use nukes too. Our politicians together with our sycophantic media and their weapons salesmen talking heads really do spread the most egregious disinformation throughout every wartime situation we are involved in, by proxy or otherwise. Glass houses... stones...

usrbinbash 3y ago
> Any 'threat' they have issued has been in response to 'threats' issued by 'our' side Then please, link me the relevant statements. Liz Truss's (who btw. isn't Britains PM any more) remarks were made in late August 2022 [1]. The russian nuclear sabre-rattling started in February 2022 [2]. So who exactly has threatened russia with nuclear weapons to elicit these responses? Helping a souvereign nation defend itself against an invasion and protecting their land and people, is not a threat. Offering a souvereign nation to join a military pact is also not a threat. [1]: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/08/26/jfvn-a26.html https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/08/26/jfvn-a26.html [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_threats_during_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_threats_during_the_Rus...