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I can't figure out why people who write articles like this seem to be oblivious to the very practical argument about the US second amendment that goes along the
by catapart 1y ago
I can't figure out why people who write articles like this seem to be oblivious to the very practical argument about the US second amendment that goes along the lines of "guns don't kill people, people do".
To everyone who wants to pose an argument like this, please consider: We have already internalized that very simple, and very thoughtless argument, and have moved past that facile framing to start asking the more pressing questions like "what are we going to do about how humans are using X to perpetrate Y?"
We don't need the extra step of you making us reframe the question to fit your exact criteria of "good question". "AI is going to kill us" can be understood as: "Humans are going to use AI to kill us". The fact that you want to misunderstand it as a more childish argument is your own failings with semiotics. It's so blatantly silly that in most cases, it's less degrading to assume that you are purposefully trying to misdirect the argument than to assume you actually believe people are worried about the agency of inanimate objects. But then you go and write a whole article to preen "logical" at us about how it's just that "no one's asking the right questions!", which kind of makes it hard to imagine that you don't actually think so little of people.