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The doomerism on AI is frankly, barking madness, a lack of sense of probability and scale, mixed with utterly batshit paranoia. It is like living paralyzed in
by Nasrudith 2y ago
The doomerism on AI is frankly, barking madness, a lack of sense of probability and scale, mixed with utterly batshit paranoia.
It is like living paralyzed in fear of every birth, for fear that random variance will produce one baby born smarter than Einstein will be capable of developing an infinite cascade of progressively smarter babies and concluding that therefore we must stop all breeding. No matter how smart the baby super-Einstein winds up being there is no unstoppable, unopposable omnicide mechanism. You can't theorem your way out of a paper bag.
- realce 2y agoThe problem with your analogy is that these babies are HUMANS and not some distinctly different cyber-species. The basis of "human alignment" is that we all require basically the same conditions and environment in order to live, we all feel pain and pleasure, we all need food - that's what produces any amount of human cooperation. What's being feverishly developed is the seed of a different species that doesn't share those restrictions. We've already found ourselves on a trajectory where un-employing millions or billions of people without any system to protect them afterwards is just accepted, and that's simply the first step of many in the destruction-of-empathy path that creating AI/AGI brings people down.