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I lived through roughly the latter half of the cold war and both of my parents were soldiers. I lived in West Germany etc. No we have not escaped the nuclear

by gerdesj 13d ago

I lived through roughly the latter half of the cold war and both of my parents were soldiers. I lived in West Germany etc. No we have not escaped the nuclear thing. If anything, the current Russian tzar is rather more unhinged than any of his predecessors. I doubt many here know what perestroika and glasnost mean or why those Russian words were so important back in the day. I don't fear AI (where on earth would an "autonomous" AI manage to find the power requirements). Darleks can't really fly and LLMs will stop when you pull the plug! I do fear numpties with a red button and a tenuous grip on reality.

0xDEAFBEAD 13d ago
>No we have not escaped the nuclear thing. If anything, the current Russian tzar is rather more unhinged than any of his predecessors. Understood. This is a dire situation. But it's not hopeless. Same for AI. >I don't fear AI (where on earth would an "autonomous" AI manage to find the power requirements). Darleks can't really fly and LLMs will stop when you pull the plug! See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49689132 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49689132
- 1attice 12d ago
  Hopelessness is a technicality, like absolute darkness. It's still very, very dark, and you are not arguing in good faith if you keep somehow treating this as a successful consolation
  - 0xDEAFBEAD 12d ago
    Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. The idea that we're almost certainly doomed is an extraordinary claim. I haven't seen extraordinary evidence for it.
    - 1attice 12d ago
      That was never the claim, firstly, so successful straw man there, and secondly, even if it was, would it really be that shocking? Population bottlenecks have happened for less. All habitat eventually shrinks. All species go extinct. By the odds, I'm betting with the house.

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I lived through roughly the latter half of the cold war and both of my parents were soldiers. I lived in West Germany etc. No we have not escaped the nuclear

by gerdesj 13d ago

0xDEAFBEAD 13d ago
>No we have not escaped the nuclear thing. If anything, the current Russian tzar is rather more unhinged than any of his predecessors. Understood. This is a dire situation. But it's not hopeless. Same for AI. >I don't fear AI (where on earth would an "autonomous" AI manage to find the power requirements). Darleks can't really fly and LLMs will stop when you pull the plug! See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49689132 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49689132
- 1attice 12d ago
  Hopelessness is a technicality, like absolute darkness. It's still very, very dark, and you are not arguing in good faith if you keep somehow treating this as a successful consolation
  - 0xDEAFBEAD 12d ago
    Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. The idea that we're almost certainly doomed is an extraordinary claim. I haven't seen extraordinary evidence for it.
    - 1attice 12d ago
      That was never the claim, firstly, so successful straw man there, and secondly, even if it was, would it really be that shocking? Population bottlenecks have happened for less. All habitat eventually shrinks. All species go extinct. By the odds, I'm betting with the house.