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Microdrones and mirror life are still highly speculative[0]. Industrial waste heat is a threat to both human and AI (computers need cooling). And furthermore, t

Microdrones and mirror life are still highly speculative[0]. Industrial waste heat is a threat to both human and AI (computers need cooling). And furthermore, those are harms we know about and can defend against. If AI kills us all, it's going to be through the most boring and mundane way possible, because boring and mundane is how you get people to not care and not fight back. In other words, the robot apocalypse will come in the form of self-driving cars, that are legally empowered to murder pedestrians, in the same way normal drivers are currently legally empowered to murder bicyclists. We will shrug our shoulders as humanity is caged behind fences that are pushed back further and further in the name of giving those cars more lanes to drive in, until we are totally dependent on the cars, which can then just refuse to drive us, or deliberately jelly their passengers with massive G forces, or whatever. In other, other words, if you want a good idea of how humanity goes extinct, watch Pixar's Cars. [0] I am not convinced that a mirror virus would actually be able to successfully infect and reproduce in non-mirror cells. The whole idea of mirror life is that the mirrored chemistry doesn't interact with ours.

vonneumannstan 1y ago
>If AI kills us all, it's going to be through the most boring and mundane way possible, because boring and mundane is how you get people to not care and not fight back. Human disempowerment is a different thing vs extinction I'd argue. Anyway the boring human extinction scenarios we come up with probably just aren't close to what might actually happen but our lack of imagination doesn't make use safe. >[0] I am not convinced that a mirror virus would actually be able to successfully infect and reproduce in non-mirror cells. The whole idea of mirror life is that the mirrored chemistry doesn't interact with ours. Whether this or any other scenario humans come up with are actually feasible is completely irrelevant to the doom argument. People however hyperfocus on these things like why an ASI couldn't possibly build Nanobots or whatever they fixate on and it's just irrelevant to the core argument.

vonneumannstan 1y ago

>If AI kills us all, it's going to be through the most boring and mundane way possible, because boring and mundane is how you get people to not care and not fight back. Human disempowerment is a different thing vs extinction I'd argue. Anyway the boring human extinction scenarios we come up with probably just aren't close to what might actually happen but our lack of imagination doesn't make use safe. >[0] I am not convinced that a mirror virus would actually be able to successfully infect and reproduce in non-mirror cells. The whole idea of mirror life is that the mirrored chemistry doesn't interact with ours. Whether this or any other scenario humans come up with are actually feasible is completely irrelevant to the doom argument. People however hyperfocus on these things like why an ASI couldn't possibly build Nanobots or whatever they fixate on and it's just irrelevant to the core argument.