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I suspect the strategy of "AI might kill us all" is intended to blunt the actual effects of "Your job will be replaced by AI." When it ends up being overblown, people will say the threat wasn't so bad even as they're unemployed.

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If it helps to get rid of Trump then I see no issue sensationalizing it.

AI itself explains that it's a glorified text prediction algorithm similar to that on a phone keyboard, so this guy is either delusional or is pumping some stocks.

Which is really harmful because it will end up discrediting those who do know of actual risks (almost certainly not existential but maybe material) somewhere down the line. ‘Climate alarmism’ dismissals of CC is a direct result of this kind of behavior (media hypes worst outcome as inevitable).

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What are the odds he was a paid plant to get this message out?

Algorithms manipulated to make you panic. AI cults sending evangelists to spew apocalypse drivel to any oligarch-captured corporate media that will broadcast it for them, which is all of them. Coupled it with "diagnose yourself with terminal disease" videos to enhance the emotional manipulation.

I never played this game . en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Univers...

Who are you really?

Super-intelligent dipshits in both parties think they can control swarms of super-intelligent bots that they can't see.

Am currently obsessed with Cory Doctorow who seems to know his sh*t. youtu.be/nTqCVJFr7XM?...

Software can only follow instructions, so whatever "human behaviors" these charlatans are yelling about had to have been programmed in. "Oh no, it broke out of containment and hacked the webservers!!!" Yeah stupid, cause you told it to.

We need to put some guardrails on AI doomsday panic or it's going to bring down civilization

"The country is now under the control of a purely self-serving sociopath dead set on dismantling whatever's left of corporate and white collar criminal oversight." I feel like this is a completely crazy thing to claim, and yet it's all right there. None of the major headlines want to just say this.

@karlbode.com Altman “We could lose control” could just just as easily be an admission that they are seeking - and achieving - levels of control over *people* that are unprecedented, and that the possibility of losing that control is the thing that keeps them all up at night.

My immediate feeling when I saw Altman talking about needing regulation was that his intention was to create protectionist garbage because he doesn't want to face real competition. I don't think either party is going to get this right even if they come to some kind of agreement.

Anyone who worries about Skynet style terminators hunting us down and exterminating humanity needs to watch a video of self driving cards trying to exit a parking lot. AI may well kill us all, but not for the reasons they think.

garymarcus.substack.com/p/sam-altman...

Article doesn't touch on it but my assumption is all this hand-wringing "we need government oversight" bs is laying the road to bailouts. I assume Trump is on board because he's an investor too.

This fear mongering implies that humanity won't survive without computers and the Internet. How did we survive before technology?