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It doesn't matter what should or should not happen. Technology will continue to race forward at breakneck speed while everyone involved pats each other on the b
by thatguy0900 1y ago
It doesn't matter what should or should not happen. Technology will continue to race forward at breakneck speed while everyone involved pats each other on the back for making a bunch of money before the consequences hit
- nessbot 1y agotechnology doesn't just advance itself
- lo_zamoyski 1y agoThis is true. We have a choice...in principle. But in practice, it's like stopping an arms race.
- hollerith 1y agoWhich arms race? The nuclear arms race of the Cold War? That one got stopped.
- thatguy0900 1y agoIt's hard to say the nuclear arms race is stopped when the US actively bombed a countries nuclear processing plants recently, and the US is also talking about building the Golden dome.
- bnchrch 1y agoNo, but one thing is certain, in large human systems you can only redirect greed, you can't stop it.
- alex_duf 1y agoIf the incentive is there, the technology will advance. I hear "we need to slow down the progress of technology", but that's misunderstanding _why_ it progresses. I'm assuming the slow down camp really need to look into what's the incentive to slow down. Personally I don't think it's possible at this stage. The cat's out of the bag (this new class of tools are working) the economic incentive is way too strong.
- bgwalter 1y agoThe Iranian nuclear program disagrees. There could be treaties and the analogue of the IAEA for "AI".