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> However, in this emerging industry of AI weapons, critics say a lot of bugs still need to be worked out. The 21st century is shaping up to be pretty terrifyi
by karaterobot 2y ago
> However, in this emerging industry of AI weapons, critics say a lot of bugs still need to be worked out.
The 21st century is shaping up to be pretty terrifying.
- nradov 2y agoMore terrifying than the 13th century?
- karaterobot 2y agoWasn't around back then, can't say for sure.
- nradov 2y agoPerhaps you should study history. So far the 21st century looks on average to be less terrifying than any previous century.
- oska 2y ago> any previous century Big call here.
- karaterobot 2y agoDo me a favor and explain why you think that's a contradiction.
- adrian_b 2y ago"Terror" is used frequently to mean fear of something that may happen in the future, as opposed to "horror", which is used to refer to a sensation caused by something bad that has already happened. If these restricted meanings are used, then the 13th century would be horrifying, not terrifying, when remembering it now, and it could be argued that the present is more terrifying than many moments in the past, because at those moments, even if people were afraid of something bad happening, they did not expect anything that could bring a global destruction from which nobody could escape. Nevertheless, even if there are many reasons that make the present much more terrifying than 10 years ago, from climate change to more and more monopolistic economies to non-negligible risk of nuclear war, most people were much more terrified during the fifties and early sixties of the 20th century, when the risk of nuclear war seemed much higher and the memories of the horrors of WWII were still strong.