Okay so to be clear we are destroying power grids, the livelihoods of actual humans beings, and communication/research infrastructure for the sake of an algorithm that converts stolen data into unreliable stolen data and consistently loses millions of dollars. Just to be clear
Remember it's not about the murder ai..it's about the race for short term profits at the expense of everything that makes the world worth living in along the way
“Nobody asked for all these potatoes but I keep peeling them and now my hands hurt and my house is full of peeled potatoes. Ho hum, better keep peeling”
Wtf. Thats why it was always natural to develop creativity first, then skill. AI bros go right to ‘instant gratification’ but never exercised their imagination before so they don’t know what they’re ‘making’ [having produced, rather] or, importantly, why they’re doing it. No point of view, just slop
It's crazy to me that all these art companies, whose own primary customers are artists who make real art are all diving into ai slop, to alienate the people they depend on most. Just incredible decision making
God the amount of times Ive seen techbros say this stupid shit and also that Europe is regulating too hard and strangling their innovation. “Falling behind!” Falling behind, from fucking AUTOCOMPLETE. They are goddamn ridiculous and unserious people.
There’s a really stupid thought experiment where an AI eternally tortures the people who didn’t support building the AI, and a lot of tech bros are into the idea.
You're giving it too much credit, it doesn't torture you, it tortures an ai duplicate of you. How can you tell you aren't also simula- damn there's no good jerk off motion emoji
No, that would be silly to believe. It will torture AI clones of them that don't know they're AI clones, so because they might be such a clone themselves they should hasten the future AI to protect the identity clone collective from punishment. Which is obviously much more logical and likely.
Probably. I mean I just described the basilisk as I remember reading it, because I think a lot of the summaries make it sound somehow more reasonable that it is.
It all feels like someone got high and thought "I bet I can reinvent Pascal's Wager but without God" and then someone else bought into it. If you told me it was invented on a bet at a sci-fi con I'd say "Two nickels? Sure."
