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The latest South Park episode had a fairly funny bit about this whole thing, so I think we (society in general, I mean) are aware of this. I don't think there a

The latest South Park episode had a fairly funny bit about this whole thing, so I think we (society in general, I mean) are aware of this. I don't think there are any easy answers to prevent people getting sucked into these sort of problems though. I mean, look at how much people shared on social media back in its early days. Stories are coming out every week about how people have been waylaid by these properties. Education I guess is the answer, but we don't even seem to be able to properly educate children about pornography and social media, let alone the subtleties of interacting with AIs..

gjsman-1000 1y ago
> Education I guess is the answer If these are real problems, hell no, because education has never forced anyone to do anything right. You can yell about the dangers of STDs until you are blue in the face, but 20% of the population carries one. You can yell about the dangers of speeding just 5 MPH with graphic imagery in drivers ed, but 35% of adults go 10+ MPH over in residential areas every month. The answer, quite literally, is possibly age verification, outright bans, or mandatory licensing. None of which are priced into the stock market. However, any government will quickly realize that having up to a quarter of your population vulnerable to developing psychosis and mental problems (due to 27% of the population experiencing at least some form of mental illness just in the last year, making them presumably more vulnerable to AI) is absolutely literally financially impossible to allow freedom in experimenting with.
- cyberpunk 1y ago
  So .... your argument is that we shouldn't educate children about STDs because some people ignore that? So what then, ban sex? Good luck. Education is really the only answer here. There are clearly challenges in doing it right but fucked if I don't think it'd be worse not to even try...
  - gjsman-1000 1y ago
    You're acting like human nature, wanting the easy way out, is something that can be overcome by education. It can't. Full stop. It needs to be a choice of the people involved, to do the hard good thing, unless it is otherwise imposed on them. We enjoy "freedom" in the sense that the good choice is often not imposed, because enough people make the good decision regardless. If AI successfully convinces enough people to not make that choice, despite all the lecturing on why you should make the proper choice, we're screwed unless we clamp down hard. I do know that a society with the level of cognitive dependency that AI risks introducing, and is already introducing, literally cannot function without collapse. Do you want a society intellectually dependent on advanced manufacturing techniques in one of the most geopolitically at-risk regions of the world?

gjsman-1000 1y ago

> Education I guess is the answer If these are real problems, hell no, because education has never forced anyone to do anything right. You can yell about the dangers of STDs until you are blue in the face, but 20% of the population carries one. You can yell about the dangers of speeding just 5 MPH with graphic imagery in drivers ed, but 35% of adults go 10+ MPH over in residential areas every month. The answer, quite literally, is possibly age verification, outright bans, or mandatory licensing. None of which are priced into the stock market. However, any government will quickly realize that having up to a quarter of your population vulnerable to developing psychosis and mental problems (due to 27% of the population experiencing at least some form of mental illness just in the last year, making them presumably more vulnerable to AI) is absolutely literally financially impossible to allow freedom in experimenting with.

cyberpunk 1y ago
So .... your argument is that we shouldn't educate children about STDs because some people ignore that? So what then, ban sex? Good luck. Education is really the only answer here. There are clearly challenges in doing it right but fucked if I don't think it'd be worse not to even try...
- gjsman-1000 1y ago
  You're acting like human nature, wanting the easy way out, is something that can be overcome by education. It can't. Full stop. It needs to be a choice of the people involved, to do the hard good thing, unless it is otherwise imposed on them. We enjoy "freedom" in the sense that the good choice is often not imposed, because enough people make the good decision regardless. If AI successfully convinces enough people to not make that choice, despite all the lecturing on why you should make the proper choice, we're screwed unless we clamp down hard. I do know that a society with the level of cognitive dependency that AI risks introducing, and is already introducing, literally cannot function without collapse. Do you want a society intellectually dependent on advanced manufacturing techniques in one of the most geopolitically at-risk regions of the world?