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gpt5 6 11 90 will exist regardless. The option where they don't exist doesn't exist, and so it is utterly pointless to spend one second fretting about how you
by Brian_K_White 3y ago
gpt5 6 11 90 will exist regardless.
The option where they don't exist doesn't exist, and so it is utterly pointless to spend one second fretting about how you don't like that or why one should not like that. A nova could go off 50 light years from here, and that would kill every cell on the planet. That is even worse than child porn. And there is nothing anyone can do about that except work towards the eventual day we aren't limited to this planet, rather than against that day. It's the same with any tech that empowers. It WILL empower the bad as well as the good equally, and it WILL exist. So being scared of it's mere existense, or it's being in the hands of people you don't approve of, is pointless. Both of those things can not be avoided. Might as well be scared of that nova.
There isn't even a choice about who gets to use it. It will be available one way or another to both good and bad actors for any purpose they want.
The only choices available to make, are who gets a few different kinds of advantage, who gets their thumb on the scale, who gets official blessing, who gets to operate in secrecy without oversight or auditing or public approval.
When you try to pretend that something uncontrollable is controlled, all it does is put the general populations guard down and make them blind and open to be manipulated, and gives the bad actors the cover of secrecy. The government can use it on it's own citizens without them objecting, and other bad guys aren't affected at all, but honest people are inhibited from countering any of these bad users.
Which is a shame because honest or at least reasonably so outnumber the really bad. The only long term way to oppose the bad is to empower everyone equally as much as possible, so that the empowered good outnumber the empowered bad.