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That is not what the "AI safety ninnies" are worried about. The "AI safety ninnies" aren't all corporate lobbyists with ulterior motives.
by downWidOutaFite 3y ago
That is not what the "AI safety ninnies" are worried about. The "AI safety ninnies" aren't all corporate lobbyists with ulterior motives.
- pmarreck 3y agoSo what, in fact, ARE they worried about? And why should I have to pay the tax (in terms of reduced intelligence and perfectly legitimate queries denied, such as anything about sexuality), as a good actor?
- __loam 3y agoAt least some of them are worried their Markov Chain will become God, somehow.
- pmarreck 3y agoWhich is as ridiculous a belief as that only your particular religion is the correct one, and the rest are going to Hell.
- downWidOutaFite 3y agoAll kinds of things. Personally, in the medium term I'm concerned about massive loss of jobs and the collapse of the current social order consensus. In the longer term, the implications of human brains becoming worthless compared to superior machine brains.
- astrange 3y agoGood thing unemployment is entirely determined by what the Federal Reserve wants unemployment to be, and even better that productivity growth increases wages rather than decreasing them.
- pmarreck 3y agoThose things won't happen, or at least, nothing like that will happen overnight. No amount of touting baseless FUD will change that. I guess I'm a Yann LeCun'ist and not a Geoffrey Hinton'ist. If you look at the list of signatories here, it's almost all atheist materialists (such as Daniel Dennett) who believe (baselessly) that we are soulless biomachines: https://www.safe.ai/statement-on-ai-risk#open-letter https://www.safe.ai/statement-on-ai-risk#open-letter When they eventually get proven wrong, I anticipate the goalposts will move again.
- downWidOutaFite 3y agoLuckily I haven't read any of that debate so any adhominems don't apply to me. I've come up with these worries all on my own after the realization that GPT-4 does a better job than me at a lot of my tasks, including setting my priorities and schedules. At some point I fully expect the roles of master and slave to flip.
- astrange 3y agoThey think their computers are going to come alive and enslave them, because they think all of life is determined by how good at doing math you are, and instead of being satisfied at being good at that, they realized computers are better at doing math than them.
- downWidOutaFite 3y agoRevenge of the nerd haters
- pmarreck 3y agoLOL, imagine thinking that all of thinking can be boiled down to computation. Of course, spectrum-leaning nerds would think that's a serious threat. To those folks, I have but one question: Who's going to give it the will to care?