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Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.
by littlestymaar 1y ago
Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.
- neom 1y agoPowerful self assembling machines controlled by artificial intelligence more capable than the average human, not your flavor of the month then I guess? More seriously, are there public examples where inventors/technologists have ever actually said "we could do this but we won't"?
- aeve890 1y agoCommon excuse for this kind of behavior is "evil people will do it regardless, so the only option for us is do it too to be prepared for when evil people use it for evil purposes".
- h2zizzle 1y agoIt's weird that no one thinks to build an Iron Dome until well after the nuclear arms race has been chugging along for a while. The goal should be to checkmate potentially ruinous branches of a tech tree, not to be in perpetual check with them as they grow ever longer and spikier.
- littlestymaar 1y agoIn practice, it's always the evil guy saying that though.
- jolmg 1y agoOr if you flip cause and effect, power corrupts.
- littlestymaar 1y agoThat's a common saying, but honestly I don't really buy it anymore: I feel like it's just a selection bias: in average one does not climb up to the top unless they are a psycho.
- Nasrudith 1y agoThat has basiscally been the cringeworthy stunt of Sam Altmann playing chuunibyou claiming his AI is oh so dangerous.
- akomtu 1y agoDemonic scientists are thinking hard how to feed our planet to machines.
- MrFoof 1y agoPossible outcome: Gray goo scenario (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_goo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_goo) A recent "popular culture" reference to the scenario mentioned in the article is the video game, "Horizon: Zero Dawn."
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