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People have been scared of AGI for decades, such that it would take over and destroy humanity. Hail our robot overlords! My take is that it will do that indirec
by kungfupawnda 3y ago
People have been scared of AGI for decades, such that it would take over and destroy humanity. Hail our robot overlords! My take is that it will do that indirectly by destroying the climate first because of the energy requirements. I find it chilling to imagine the possibility that any inevitable successful AGI would require humans to first destroy themselves. As in we are setting up the precondition for it. Just like how dinosaurs were wiped out so that the homo sapiens can evolve.
- stanleykm 3y agoSimilarly AI will cost jobs but only because companies will overinvest in it at the expense of other parts of the business.
- teaearlgraycold 3y agoI kind of doubt that. Much more likely in my mind would either be we go back into an "AI winter" or AI solves the energy crisis by solving fusion.
- stanleykm 3y agois it more efficient to properly fund fusion research or give sam altman $7T and hope for the best?
- adventured 3y agoNobody is giving Altman $7 trillion and there isn't any evidence that he's actually trying to raise it (as opposed to suggesting that level of investment globally over time toward AI related infrastructure to support its build out).
- kungfupawnda 3y agoI got 'triggered' into this thought by thinking about the energy requirements of a system worth 7 trillion. A system which seems to require exponentially larger resources for progression.
- xarope 3y agoimagine an AI paperclip maximizer, except now maximizing for success of fusion... so basically, turning little ol' Earth into the next Sun, oops.
- teaearlgraycold 3y agoI for one welcome our helium producing overlords.
- tivert 3y ago> I find it chilling to imagine the possibility that any inevitable successful AGI would require humans to first destroy themselves. That's not the chilling thing. The chilling thing is there are people (mainly sci-fi addled software engineers) who would consciously choose to destroy humanity in order to create an AGI. It's like they read about paperclip maximizers, and decided to become one for <insert-scifi-concept-here-usually-agi>.