All this dystopian x-risk AGI futurist BS is (1) an expression of male technological ego and (2) a distraction from present-tense crisis. Fascism is upon us, folks. Stop with your p-doom doomer bullshit and pay attention to now.
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Remember when nanites were the big worry? In the end what most likely threatens us is what has always threatened people: violent neighbors, whatever their motivation.
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The richest man in the world, who owns a major global social media platform, has an unelected seat at the table of the country which has the most powerful military, with access to a cutting edge AI (presumably capable of monitoring realtime events) and basically zero regulation... _Nazi salutes_
This is cause for concern to me, not least because presumably there's nothing to stop people like this from using AI in an unethical way to 'wargame' various scenarios in an attempt to coerce and control and comprehensively break the status quo.
Yep. It's all smoke and mirrors to distract from the clear and present danger of a fascist in the White House advised by a fascist with effectively endless amounts of money and a huge megaphone.
the biggest danger AI poses to humanity is accelerating climate change because so many people with the power to force adoption are in the thrall of tech bros and haven't figured out yet that it's a massive grift
There is an important substitution needed in Doomerism. We are already at the point where AI-aligned capitalism is demanding nuclear power plants & domination of our power grids. The Engines of Destruction are not artificial intelligences, but hyper-extractive capitalists associated with AI "tools."
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