That's what I'm talking about! People just pretend like it's not the most interesting, crazy thing in the world. It's gonna hit em over the head eventually and they're going to wonder what happened.BurtReynolds wrote:I mean, I could start posting some hardcore accelerationist madness, but nobody here is gonna get it. They are too busy talking about poop.
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These people are Gen X, tree. They are practically boomers. Not like us zoomers.
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I predict an AI backlash while we’re still in control. Not enough room for both of us in this world.
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I've been listening to a lot of smart people talk about this. There is an alignment problem. We have no way of tethering it to our interests. We don't know how it works, fundamentally. It's a disaster waiting to happen. The only solution is to merge, which right now isn't possible, because there's a bandwidth problem.spike wrote:I predict an AI backlash while we’re still in control. Not enough room for both of us in this world.
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prepare to bow to your Robot King


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You have to put this in terms that the Star Wars brains will understand. Is AI going to be Palpatine, or Baby Yoda? Hard to say.tree_ wrote:I've been listening to a lot of smart people talk about this. There is an alignment problem. We have no way of tethering it to our interests. We don't know how it works, fundamentally. It's a disaster waiting to happen. The only solution is to merge, which right now isn't possible, because there's a bandwidth problem.spike wrote:I predict an AI backlash while we’re still in control. Not enough room for both of us in this world.
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AI doesn’t even poop. What a loser.
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Burt forever desperate for something, anything to destroy civilization as we know it.
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Now this is podracing.
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It’s just another tool.
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Correct. Definitely not a living, sentient thing like The Force.
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I can’t overstate how much I hate NBA teams wearing their dark colors at home and road teams in white
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I guess that's me, but it's not pretend at all.tree_ wrote:When people pretend to be unimpressed by technology, particularly AI
The AI stuff in particular just seems totally uninteresting.
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+1Birds in Hell wrote:I guess that's me, but it's not pretend at all.tree_ wrote:When people pretend to be unimpressed by technology, particularly AI
The AI stuff in particular just seems totally uninteresting.
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True AI would be that which uses tools.spike wrote:It’s just another tool.
Though a paperclip maximizer would also be regarded as a tool I guess, in the same way a nuclear bomb would
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