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How about wiping out an entire civilization? Not even necessary to hide this thought in your diary if you have enough power. I've seen today - in fact any day o
by siva7 5mo ago
How about wiping out an entire civilization? Not even necessary to hide this thought in your diary if you have enough power. I've seen today - in fact any day of this year - much worse things than his diary thoughts.
- applfanboysbgon 5mo agoWell, gee. When you put it like that, Hitler existed, so really we can't fault anybody for anything short of orchestrating the genocide of 12 million people.
- wahnfrieden 5mo agoMusk engineered the deaths of 14 million people https://time.com/article/2026/05/15/usaid-shutdown-rise-global-violence/ https://time.com/article/2026/05/15/usaid-shutdown-rise-glob...
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- avazhi 5mo agoYeah bro, the US pulling foreign aid is directly causative of somebody starving to death. lol
- gambiting 5mo agoI mean.....it takes only a very cursory look over the programmes that USAid provided to see that it's more than likely?
- avazhi 5mo agoThat isn’t how causation works. By your logic you could argue that if anybody on this planet starves to death then Americans can be blamed and ‘engineered it’, since they had the economic means to prevent it. You’re essentially trying to argue that inaction is a positive act, which it is not as a matter of logic and law universally. Your logic is laughable on its face, obviously. Americans have no more duty to look after non-Americans than anybody else.
- gambiting 5mo agoIf I provide cancer drugs to someone, and then suddenly stop, am I to blame for them dying of cancer? That doesn't imply that I have a moral duty to provide the drugs. But if I am providing them and then withdraw them, then there is some responsibility on my part? >>You’re essentially trying to argue that inaction is a positive act You've assumed I have a certain position then argue against it, not against what I actually said. >>Your logic is laughable on its face, obviously HN has a higher level of discussion than this
- avazhi 5mo agoUnilateral voluntary foreign aid is not in any way analogous to medical care that creates strict legal obligations when the doctor-patient relationship commences.
- kvgr 5mo agoThe quote is "could lead to 14 million additional deaths by 2030" and i dont like musk. But this is big difference.
- wahnfrieden 5mo agoHe engineered it and it’s happening now. Check the estimate of deaths so far. Or wait a few more years to see sure.
- creato 5mo agoEven if you think this this is what OpenAI is doing, they surely don't think that. So why would he write that in his diary?
- pstuart 5mo agoI recall a comment that Sam was talking about selling AGI to the highest bidder, including hostile foreign governments, so not literally planning to destroy civilization but definitely selling it out. And for any equivalencies of the current US regime and Russia and China, yes, that's a fair point but the implication is that they'd be selling to our enemies.