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AGI is special. Because one day AI can start improving itself autonomously. At this point singularity occurs and nobody knows what will happen. When human star

AGI is special. Because one day AI can start improving itself autonomously. At this point singularity occurs and nobody knows what will happen. When human started to improve himself, we built the civilisation, we became a super-predator, we dried out seas and changed climate of the entire planet. We extinguished entire species of animals and adapted other species for our use. Huge changes. AI could bring changes of greater amplitude.

fooker 2y ago
> we dried out seas When did we do this ?
- nikvaes 2y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flevoland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flevoland used to be (part of) a sea.
- zppln 2y ago
  Depending on your definition of sea: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aral_Sea https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aral_Sea
steveoscaro 2y ago
We’re in fact adding more water to the seas, not drying them out.
bubaumba 2y ago
> AGI is special. Because one day AI can start improving itself autonomously AGI can be sub-human, right? That's probably how it will start. The question will be is it already AGI or not yet, i.e. where to set the boundary. So, at first that will be humans improving AGI, but then... I'm afraid it can get so much better that humans will be literally like macaques in comparison.