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This is my problem with it, I don't want to keep hearing about the upsides without the massive and potentially existential downsides being thoroughly addressed

This is my problem with it, I don't want to keep hearing about the upsides without the massive and potentially existential downsides being thoroughly addressed first. This IMO needs to include some serious international cooperation, much, much more effort needs to go into this than what is going on now. Not being friends with China and other super powers on this subject is suicide. In a way, this is such a big deal that we absolutely must put our differences aside to resolve it. Seriously, we all get it, medicine, medicine, medicine AI and medicine. I guess we're going to need some pretty good fucking medicine after robot wars, economic collapse, terminators and engineered pandemics are common occurrences ? Our lives are already pretty great, we don't need to run into some idiotic scenario for some potential gain. It would be wonderful if we actual used our brains and collective wisdom at some stage in the near future and actually thought about what kind of world we're building. This combined with climate change is fucking ridiculous. If the aliens landed, they'd have to ask, who the fuck is in charge of this world? Because right now, it's just chaos. Right now the only hope I see us having is if "compassion" is an emergency property of some 5000000b parameter model ChatGPT-20 model.

reaperman 3y ago
> If the aliens landed, they'd have to ask, who the fuck is in charge of this world? Because right now, it's just chaos. This feels as absurd as a human walking into a forest and asking who is in charge of it. The Earth is an environment, with many creatures living in it. Humans simply haven't yet achieved the utilization of a central authority to take charge of global long-term caretaking. Neither have the wolves or moose on Isle Royale[0]. I don't think aliens would be confused by that. Perhaps humans will figure it out. Perhaps the wolves on Isle Royale will eventually eat every last moose before they subsequently perish from lack of food. Perhaps humans won't figure it out. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolves_and_moose_on_Isle_Royale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolves_and_moose_on_Isle_Royal...
- ChatGTP 3y ago
  Why is it absurd when we have "elected representatives", animals don't really have this? I'm not saying there should be 1 leader, but I mean, there should be at least a few who have some ability to influence things positively given the fact we have governments.

reaperman 3y ago

> If the aliens landed, they'd have to ask, who the fuck is in charge of this world? Because right now, it's just chaos. This feels as absurd as a human walking into a forest and asking who is in charge of it. The Earth is an environment, with many creatures living in it. Humans simply haven't yet achieved the utilization of a central authority to take charge of global long-term caretaking. Neither have the wolves or moose on Isle Royale[0]. I don't think aliens would be confused by that. Perhaps humans will figure it out. Perhaps the wolves on Isle Royale will eventually eat every last moose before they subsequently perish from lack of food. Perhaps humans won't figure it out. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolves_and_moose_on_Isle_Royale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolves_and_moose_on_Isle_Royal...

ChatGTP 3y ago
Why is it absurd when we have "elected representatives", animals don't really have this? I'm not saying there should be 1 leader, but I mean, there should be at least a few who have some ability to influence things positively given the fact we have governments.