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... while at the same time not really worth worrying about so we should be concentrating on unnamed alleged mid term risks.

EY tweets are probably the lowest effort sneerclub content possible but the birdsite threw this to my face this morning so it's only fair you suffer too. Transcript follows:

Andrew Ng wrote:

In AI, the ratio of attention on hypothetical, future, forms of harm to actual, current, realized forms of harm seems out of whack.

Many of the hypothetical forms of harm, like AI "taking over", are based on highly questionable hypotheses about what technology that does not currently exist might do.

Every field should examine both future and current problems. But is there any other engineering discipline where this much attention is on hypothetical problems rather than actual problems?

EY replied:

I think when the near-term harm is massive numbers of young men and women dropping out of the human dating market, and the mid-term harm is the utter extermination of humanity, it makes sense to focus on policies motivated by preventing mid-term harm, if there's even a trade-off.

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[-] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

see also the similar deleterious social effects of chess addiction in history (mostly as part of bans on gambling)

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 11 points 1 year ago

Their crippling addiction

My worthy pastime

[-] locallynonlinear@awful.systems 7 points 1 year ago

Completely unrelated, but Everytime I see your avatar in the tiny minimized form I see Squidward's face, and then your comments get 20% more amusing.

[-] 200fifty@awful.systems 4 points 1 year ago

Oh man, I won't be able to unsee this, lol

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 4 points 1 year ago

Me neither. Poor Elden Ring jellyfish!

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 1 year ago

Do you feel attacked? Because now is the time to switch to the red jellyfish.

[-] BernieDoesIt@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Today I learned that gerikson's avatar isn't Squidward.

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