SuperThread

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by SuperThread 19y ago
There are way more people around now than there were then—the number of people alive today is comparable to the number of people who have died in the last millennium.
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by SuperThread 19y ago
>The way I see this, if we happen to have greater intelligences working for our common good, we would be able to solve any problem better than a human could - including a possible problem of feeling useless. That's a logical error: the
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by SuperThread 19y ago
Seriously, though, there will be no use for you (or any other human) whatsoever post-AI. And that's the best-case scenario—when AI is being used for the common good. If the people with early access to it try to use it to rule the world an
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by SuperThread 19y ago
Are you looking forward to drinking beer for the rest of your life?
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by SuperThread 19y ago
But once AI becomes more intelligent than humans, every conceivable role will definitionally be better filled by that AI than by actual humans.
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by SuperThread 19y ago
Why am I the only person who's terrified rather than excited by every new incremental progression of AI? Do you guys actually look forward to the day when humans are made obsolete? PS: This scientist seems to be exponentiating incorrectly.
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by SuperThread 19y ago
I think that you have to distinguish between wars in which the outcome is uncertain—that is, wars in which real risk to both sides is present—and wars that are essentially a big guy beating up a little guy. I agree that the former kind of w
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by SuperThread 19y ago
Then "immorality" is so prevalent that calling something immoral is pointless.