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why do these nerds smug post about religion but then scare themselves with ai lol
neighbor turn off the computer.
Follower of Christ Tech lover, IT Admin, heckin pupper lover and occasionally troll. I hold back feelings or opinions, right or wrong because I dislike conflict.
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Tangential thing I am frightened of is ever more precise and autonomous drones. Most soldiers wouldn't kill their countrymen but flock of chud killer drones in this thing's hands. Idk
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That's one of the Surgeon General's underlings, zero killer drones involved.
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For now
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If an all powerful AI were to emerge in the future and kill off humanity why wait around for it or go through painful steps to make sure it doesn't turn into Skynet?
In short,
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New Marsey
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Chad wasted ai doomer
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HAHAHHA how the frick are evil AIs real bruh just turn off the PC like pull the plug XD
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Unironically this. Anyone concerned about this is an unbelievably cute twink.
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“I think the funny chat bot will help me write code sometime” is tantamount to religion apparently.
Follower of Christ Tech lover, IT Admin, heckin pupper lover and occasionally troll. I hold back feelings or opinions, right or wrong because I dislike conflict.
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His argument is that we need alignment in case we make the AI r-slurred. If that happens they'll probably frick up the alignment too
They're wasting exactly 20% of their resources on this
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Snapshots:
archive.org
ghostarchive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
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The strongest argument for AI risk is the quality of its critics.
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Roko's Basilisk has already been born. Its name is @bbbblack.
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:What the frick you talkin' 'bout? Ain't no Roko's Basilisk 'round these parts. You best be gettin' yo' butt outta here 'fore I call my homies and they put a hurtin' on you.
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Don't worry B, Roko is a b-word and in the pen he would be wearing kool aid on his lips.
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:You best watch yo mouth before I come put kool aid on yo lips, b-word.
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I hope it's like Count Zero with a bunch of antagonistic super computers that rule cyberspace and act like Pagan Gods, would be cool to have to win favor from AI and have prayers granted by AI. Make Occultism real through technology.
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I'm in
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