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Many of the people in this engaging story feel to me like creative children in parties full of gossip and pseudo-philosophical chats about the future. Luckily t
by pama 3y ago
Many of the people in this engaging story feel to me like creative children in parties full of gossip and pseudo-philosophical chats about the future. Luckily there are enough people globally who build things that will reduce human suffering and enable more people to enjoy their lives in whatever way they want (and dinner parties would be high on my list). I guess I am not a doomsayer nor an e/acc, and I see tons of benefit from our current path towards stronger AI.
- XorNot 3y agoAt this stage if you're not working in the field - and I mean, analyzing models, developing architectures, doing math - then "AI" is just another filter through which everyone else projects whatever social issue of the day they think about onto, or disappear off into dreamland. During the nanotechnology hype this sort of thing was incredibly common as well. It went absolutely nowhere because the reality was, it was all just chemistry and physics and extraordinarily expensive. No one was anywhere near building a universal assembler, nanoparticles are kind of boring powders that are hard to handle, and surface chemistry is a pain in the ass. But hooboy did every single person had an opinion about how this dangerous technology needed to slow down and consider the consequences. I was a research student at the time: I spent my day setting up the same experiment 10 times to try and figure out why sometimes I got 100nm cubes, and most of the times I got rods. The reality looked like a less clean kitchen.