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the reason to worry is that humanity could halt AI if it wanted to. if there were a huge asteroid on a collision course with earth… there would be literally not

the reason to worry is that humanity could halt AI if it wanted to. if there were a huge asteroid on a collision course with earth… there would be literally nothing we could do to stop it. there would be no configuration of our resources, no matter how united we were in the effort, that could save us. with AI, halting progress is very plausible. it would be easy to do actually. so the reason to worry (think) is because it might be worth it to halt. imagine letting jesus take the wheel, thats how stupid ___ are.

achierius 2y ago
I, and many others, think you have it backwards. Huge asteroid? We know full well how to deflect an asteroid -- launch rockets, deploy thrusters or explosives or &c, give it a little nudge and it'll miss the Earth by a huge margin. And better yet: everyone would be aligned on the need to do so! AI on the other hand -- I don't think this applies. We couldn't stop nuclear proliferation -- what makes you so confident that we'd stop AI development before it was too late?
- smeeger 2y ago
  wrong. it wouldn't take a very big asteroid (as astroids go) for the amount of inertia to go well beyond what we are capable of deflecting. its a real example. AI on the other hand could be stopped simply by stopping. we wouldnt even have to build anything.
sfn42 2y ago
How exactly do you envision that these hypothetical computer programs could bring about the apocalypse?
- smeeger 2y ago
  if you are really so curious then lets have a live, public x space about it
  - sfn42 2y ago
    I don't use Twitter if that's what you're talking about. And I'm sure you didn't expect me to accept that ridiculous suggestion anyway so I'm just going to assume you don't have a reasonable answer.
    - smeeger 2y ago
      if you had to actually talk to me in real time i would make you look like a complete fool.
      - sfn42 2y ago
        Sure man

achierius 2y ago

I, and many others, think you have it backwards. Huge asteroid? We know full well how to deflect an asteroid -- launch rockets, deploy thrusters or explosives or &c, give it a little nudge and it'll miss the Earth by a huge margin. And better yet: everyone would be aligned on the need to do so! AI on the other hand -- I don't think this applies. We couldn't stop nuclear proliferation -- what makes you so confident that we'd stop AI development before it was too late?

smeeger 2y ago
wrong. it wouldn't take a very big asteroid (as astroids go) for the amount of inertia to go well beyond what we are capable of deflecting. its a real example. AI on the other hand could be stopped simply by stopping. we wouldnt even have to build anything.

sfn42 2y ago

How exactly do you envision that these hypothetical computer programs could bring about the apocalypse?

smeeger 2y ago
if you are really so curious then lets have a live, public x space about it
- sfn42 2y ago
  I don't use Twitter if that's what you're talking about. And I'm sure you didn't expect me to accept that ridiculous suggestion anyway so I'm just going to assume you don't have a reasonable answer.
  - smeeger 2y ago
    if you had to actually talk to me in real time i would make you look like a complete fool.
    - sfn42 2y ago
      Sure man