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Because when AGI is achieved and starts wiping out humanity, they are hoping to be killed last.
by gadders 8mo ago
Because when AGI is achieved and starts wiping out humanity, they are hoping to be killed last.
- wiseowise 8mo agoEvery person on this website will be long gone before AGI is achieved, and many lifetimes will pass until anythin remotely close to Matrix/Terminator is possible.
- jacquesm 8mo agoAhh, but your descendants will be fair game. "Your great, great, great grandad closed a pull request, we're coming for you!"
- gadders 8mo agoMaybe? I don't know if it's near, or if it will be in "the next ten years" indefinitely like quantum computing. Or we'll have semi-smart bots like we're starting to see now that won't be "people" but that are close enough and we might project sentience and personality on to them. People don't think it will be positive though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_Anyone_Builds_It,_Everyone_Dies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_Anyone_Builds_It,_Everyone_...
- dyauspitr 8mo agoIt’s not that cut and clear. It’s a human facsimile but give it a camera, microphones and a world model and the facsimile might truly be indistinguishable from a human. Then it’s just a philosophical discussion on what AGI means.
- stavros 8mo agoReally? I'm of the opinion that AGI is basically already here, except we keep moving the goalposts. "AI can match the economic output of a human in many professions" is already here. What concrete goal do you mean by AGI that's not yet achieved (without getting to generalities like "they don't think")?
- thesmtsolver2 8mo agoThey can't reason. https://aclanthology.org/2025.ijcnlp-long.52/ https://aclanthology.org/2025.ijcnlp-long.52/
- derangedHorse 8mo agoRemindMe! 5 years