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Oh he means a dystopia that is even worse than the one we are in now. 😬
So the US will enter not the rest of the world Jesus the arrogance when us media talks like every country = US.
Lol, you think the rest of the world won't be fucked as well?
It won't unless their laws are made in the imperialist nation which isn't.
AI boosters and doomers fundamentally believe the same thing.
They collectively agree that AI will be Great and Awesome, in the old sense of the words. In their minds they are building God and so it can bring about either utopia or dystopia, because it is so Great and Awesome that all hitherto history will cease to matter and the godmachine will recreate the world in its image.
Our techbro leaders are so wise they can't tell the difference between God and a statistical plagiarism machine.
Yep it's horoscopes for techbros. Come into it with unreasonable expectations and read whatever meaning you want out of it. Infinite validation machine.
all praise the autofill
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AGI doomers, yes.
I wouldn’t reject the label “AI Doomer”, myself. But I don’t have a strong position on utopia/dystopia when it comes to AGI.
Mostly because I think it’s so far away, that there’s a real good chance that we bet the farm on something much, much dumber than AGI.
Like a fancy autocomplete.
And hook it up to something unforgivably dangerous.
Like nukes.
The role of the doomer is to declare that, actually, AGI is juuust around the corner. And it's scary! They're doing the same hype as the boosters are, just from a different angle. It's all the same crap, though.
But, yeah, realistically they're going to put a chatbot in charge of something important and it's going to fail and the bubble will pop.
Hopefully it's something small and not the nuclear arsenal, but uh, these cultists really want to put chatbots in charge of the nukes.
We are already living in the worst timeline I am sure it will continue to turn to shit.
This "timeline" stuff is weird. It seems like a cop-out that there is some alternative one we could shift to that is out of reach but we're just unlucky or something.
This isn't the worst or best timeline. It is just what is happening.
We can take action. We can grab the die that Joel McHale has tossed into the air.
I'd love to know what random event in history could have been changed in order to prevent this sequence of events because as far as I can tell this timeline is the result of fairly logical consequences.
People will try to tell you it's related to Harambe (dicks out).
My guess: that time a bird dropped a baguette on the Large Hadron Collider...
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2009/nov/06/cern-big-bang-goes-phu
First, I'm pretty sure quantum theory literally allows for what you just described (aside from the "shifting" part, though I'm not sure I agree that's part of the expression).
Second, it's just a way for people to try to cope with the horrors of our reality with a little levity. That's it.
Rich, coming from someone responsible for it.
It's an "Einstein and the nuclear bomb" situation.
How do you think he knows so much about it
so the current dystopia doesn’t count?
If you think about it, the majority of the world population never knew anything different than dystopia.
In a sense, the article is tailored to a certain public that has a reasonably good life now and is naturally afraid to lose it.
But the truth is the world is (and always has been) very shitty for the majority of people on the planet when you consider the distribution of wealth.
I think it’s important to think about who are the winners and losers in this whole thing. Are these execs so altruist that they’re worried about the average person or is this doom prediction something that serves their agenda?
With Sam Altman the "OMG I'm so scared that we're building something terrifyingly powerful" pose is basically marketing and hype. Probably the same with all these other AI execs.
it's just practice.
It will be a cakewalk compared to the thousands of years of climate dystopia.
So…. What’s the plan for the next 18 months?
Prediction: Dude will have a book out about how to survive it in the next 12. Or he's aiming to receive a bonus from someone he knows who's already writing one.
Their plan? Bring it about so that Rocko's Modern Basilisk can torture the unbelievers (as if hearing their inchoate speculation about what the-computer-that-can't-even-do-math-consistently will one day be able to do isn't already torment enough).
These dumbasses have reinvented premillennial dispensationalism.
For the rest of us, I guess Butlerian Jihad is always an option.
Attempt to start a commune in the forest?
sorry you're illegally trespassing on corporate property
sorry now it's community property
Make sure you enclose it so they know that they're not part of the community.
i feel like this is more of an inevitability. at one point we are going to be looking at law. and how absurd it is and how ita being broken by actual governments and big tech and be like you know what...fuck it. we ball. and suddenly we are the wild west again where no one gives a shit what the big man says because he is full of shit. and we just do whatever the fuck we want. sadly, i suspect guns are gonna play a big part on both sides.
I'm down. We should invite some of the solarpunk instance guys.
And the steampunk guys to keep them on their toes haha
Only 15 years? That's pretty good.
That's just for the AI capitalism hell. After that we're just distracted from it by all the climate hell.
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