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We can debate whether conventional weapons are better than nuclear weapons or not. But none of that matters. We’re better off just agreeing to it and working to
by hshdhdhj4444 8mo ago
We can debate whether conventional weapons are better than nuclear weapons or not. But none of that matters. We’re better off just agreeing to it and working to improve it…
The problem with your analogies are that there is no path where a constant improvement to cars leads to anything but better outcomes for human.
There is no realistic or likely path where improvements to cellphones leads to anything but better outcomes for humans.
However, if AI keeps getting better to the extent we can imagine, ie Super Intelligence, the outcomes are more likely to be extinction level negative than positive.
- latchkey 8mo agoI have a much more positive outlook on humanity and I don't share the same doomsday scenario. For me, I made the conscious decision to turn off the news after covid. Something obviously flipped in that period where the negativity just compounded, and it just feeds into itself. I watch my own family sucked into the cycle of "what did trump do now!" kind of stuff and I found it really wasn't healthy for my own mental being. Ignorance is bliss.
- array_key_first 8mo agoNegativity exists outside of your own perception of it, or in your terms, ignorance is bliss. You can always choose to believe things will be good, but after a certain point it stops being a belief and is moreso a mental illness that requires medication. When reality and your perception diverge too much, you can believe anything. In the current economic systems, AGI would bring about mass starvation, war, and enslavement. We would require a complete destruction of capitalism to make AGI not the worst thing to happen to humanity since the black plague. Now, look at our leaders. How likely is that?
- latchkey 7mo agoI need medication because I'm happy? Wow, that's a new one.
- array_key_first 7mo agoIf you're happy because your perception of reality is very far off from reality, yes. That is psychosis. If I see myself in a mansion and I'm currently in a box under the freeway that is an hallucination.
- latchkey 7mo agoYou're conflating an emotion (happiness) with perception (living somewhere you don't live). You certainly can give someone medication because they have a negative emotion, but you don't typically give them medication for positive emotions. Unless, it is affecting their life in a negative way.