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Cars have killed millions of people. Add to that the consequences of electricity, industrialization, urbanization, and even capitalism itself. But billions and
by lazzlazzlazz 1y ago
Cars have killed millions of people. Add to that the consequences of electricity, industrialization, urbanization, and even capitalism itself. But billions and billions of people are not only better off -- living lives of outrageous luxury when measured against recent history -- but they wouldn't have existed at all.
Everything good comes with tradeoffs. AI will likely also kill millions but will create and support and improve the lives of billions (if not trillions on a long enough time scale).
- mitthrowaway2 1y agoThat's one vision of how things play out. But I do think it's possible that AI ends up killing every last person, in which case I think "everything good comes with tradeoffs" is a bit too much of an understatement.
- gusmally 1y agoEven if AI doesn't kill every last person, I think it will almost certainly increase the wealth gap. I agree that the tradeoffs will most likely not be worth it.
- arduanika 1y agoAh, so if that's what you mean by AI downsides, then you might find this useful: https://www.wikihow.com/Leave-a-Cult https://www.wikihow.com/Leave-a-Cult
- mitthrowaway2 1y agoI came to this conclusion on my own, so, no.