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by jsnathan 12y ago
AGI will completely upend society by giving every human being access to practically infinite resources, making even the poorest of the poor as wealthy as today's billionaires. Couple this with extended life spans and intelligence enhan
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Wonderful summary of the arguments that can be used to defeat this amendment on the floor. I hope we can collectively make many of the British MPs aware of the situation and help to stop this legislation from going forward. The actionable p
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It might improve usage per household which agrees to pay for the nets, but what about the people who refuse to buy them? Couldn't giving them out for free increase coverage even if the average usage is lower?
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Google is absolutely, positively not going to buy Twitter. Yet(venturebeat.com)
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by jsnathan 12y ago
Strong guarantees of privacy are essential to enable political dissent. Without it, opinions opposed to the prevailing majority view point are not only side-lined, but the very expression of an interest in them becomes a cause for controver
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The ethical necessity of addressing global human suffering, which an AI would be supremely equipped to do, let alone the incredible gain in wealth and power that goes along with it, makes it incredibly unlikely that any entity smart enough
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I agree with you. There seems to be a new marketing trend right now, where any product can be tagged with the term "artificial intelligence" if it uses any of the algorithmic techniques developed in a field of AI research. Some pe
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One might make the same point about the US government. Sad to see this post flagged of the front page without further discussion.
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That makes no sense whatsoever. If the law is unethical then so are the consequences of that law. This is like saying that laws against homesexuality may be unethical, but trying to avoid being punished for being gay is wrong.
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I do think there are some interesting tidbits here, (albeit none of them exactly new), only that OP does not explicitly highlight them. The article is simply a narrative of their success story, with most of the analysis being left up to the