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The people who can do doomsday level harm need to complete a level of education that makes them smart enough and gives them time to consider the implications of
by tppiotrowski 3y ago
The people who can do doomsday level harm need to complete a level of education that makes them smart enough and gives them time to consider the implications of their actions. They have a certain level of maturity before they can strike and this maturity makes them understand the gravity of their actions. Also, by this point they are probably set financially due to their education and not upset with the world (possibly the case for you and friends)
Then there are the script kiddies that find a tool online that someone smarter than them wrote and deploy it to wreak havoc. The script kiddies are the people I worry about. They don't have the maturity of doing the work and the emotional stability of older age and giving them something powerful through AI worries me.
Theorem: by the time someone reaches the intelligence level required to annihilate the world they can comprehend the implications of their actions.
- jacquesm 3y agoAnd there are the 'griefers', the people who seem to enjoy watching other people suffer. Unfortunately there are enough of these and they're somewhat organized and in touch with each other.
- wetmore 3y agoCounterpoint: the Unabomber
- tppiotrowski 3y agoI don't know enough about the unabomber but from what I heard he wasn't trying doomsday stuff. Seemed like more targeted assassinations at certain individuals. Feel free to enlighten me though...
- jacquesm 3y agohttps://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Kaczynski-said-to-pick-his-victims-haphazardly-3091147.php https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Kaczynski-said-to-pick-h... And then there was the idiot that tried to draw a smiley face with bombs on the map of the USA: https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=91668&page=1 https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=91668&page=1 Because hey, why not...
- danhodgins 3y agoLol : )
- TeMPOraL 3y ago> Theorem: by the time someone reaches the intelligence level required to annihilate the world they can comprehend the implications of their actions. That may or may not be somewhat the case in humans (there definitely are exceptions). Still, the opposite theorem, known as "Orthogonality thesis", states that, in general case, intelligence and value systems are mutually independent. There are good arguments for that being the case.