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If you're curious about that, are you curious about hypotheses like the Great Filter (Fermi paradox), and are you concerned that certain technologies could actu
by steve_adams_86 1y ago
If you're curious about that, are you curious about hypotheses like the Great Filter (Fermi paradox), and are you concerned that certain technologies could actually function as the filter?
I mean, what if the nuclear bomb actually did burn up the atmosphere? What if AI does turn into a runaway entity that eventually functions to serve its own purposes and comes to see humans the same way we see ants: as a sort of indifferent presence that's in the way of its goals?
- wartywhoa23 1y agoThere is a sort of people who read 1984 and blame the protagonist for being an idiot who called the fire upon himself, or still don't get what's wrong with ice9 and people behind it when turning the last page of Cat's Craddle. And a sort of people who sympathize Winston and blame Felix Hoenikker, but still fail to see any parallels between "fiction" and life.
- ekjhgkejhgk 1y agoI don't know for certain if, when you say "a sort of people", you're referring to me, but... The sort of people you're describing sound like fascists, which is the opposite of me.
- wartywhoa23 1y agoWe're on the same side then, even if our opinions on the subject differ. Please take no offence.
- ekjhgkejhgk 1y agoI mean sure. I'm not saying "lets be wreckless". I'm saying "lets understand everything about everything, more rather than less".
- steve_adams_86 1y agoI suppose I'd rather see us understand nuclear weapons without vaporizing civilians and causing an arms race. I'm not claiming to have a solution to preventing the arms race aspect of technology, but all the same: I'd rather these weapons weren't built.