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I mostly agree, except for the Messiah part. I think the optimistic excited people are thinking more 'What a time to be alive' than 'All praise be, for they ha
by Lerc 2mo ago
I mostly agree, except for the Messiah part.
I think the optimistic excited people are thinking more 'What a time to be alive' than 'All praise be, for they have come'
Which is not to say there won't be people deifying AI, I just don't think there are many of those yet.
The cynical side of me thinks it will happen, but right now I feel like most of those who seem susceptible to that kind of thinking are tending towards the Butlearian.
- kakacik 2mo agoThere are no white collar workers around us excited with AI. Bureaucrats, doctors, bankers, none. Yes everybody sees it as useful tool, and everybody damn well understands in medium term their work is at huge risk. That rolls over any emotion around 'oh what a nice new toy to use'.
- thaumasiotes 2mo ago> I mostly agree, except for the Messiah part. What do you think people are talking about when they refer to "the singularity"?
- Lerc 2mo agoPeople are not one person. Nobody speaks for all If you go by the original expression of the idea of the singularity, it is that the duration between significant advances has been decreasing throughout history at an accelerating pace. This suggests that the primary factor governing this property will reach a limit and a different property will become dominant. What happens then is unpredictable because up until now, that other property has not been discernable due to its relative scale. Like measuring the gravity of an asteroid while it is next to a star. Or seeing a star during daytime.
- zahlman 2mo agoI have heard people speak of AI agents as our "successor species" or words to that effect, seemingly thinking this to be a good thing.
- hirvi74 2mo agoIt depends how a good thing is defined. The death of humanity would be awful for humanity, but probably a boon for most of the life on this planet.