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The terminator won't, it's fictional. If AI killed everyone, it probably wouldn't happen like a hollywood movie. Climate change is subject to way more unhinged hysteria, as well! W…

If I read a lot of fantasy books as a kid, then start writing my own fantasy book, should I have to pay royalties to the authors of the books I read?

Aeroplanes were science fiction, and widely called such, until they flew.

So do humans, and yet they can be quite troublesome.

Historically, people from different regions would be able to read each other's writing (send letters to each other) even if their spoken dialects/languages were mutually incomprehe…

It's the competence I'm afraid of! If they did it competently, they would make sure they had absolute surveillance of every american's internet history.

Yes, you want the government parenting your (and others) kids.

Why would the government do that, though?

Yes, the war on drugs has been really successful. I certainly want governments doing more of that!

[Muffled screaming]

They're looking to catch up! They don't want to remain poor, after all.

Evil is the wrong term. It's not that an AI will 'turn evil' - it's that we don't know how to make a 'good/friendly' AI, by which I mean an AI that inherently values humans and the…

You think consent is important. (This isn't even a umiversal position among humans). Why do you expect an AI to value consent? Do you think praying mantises value consent?

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Part of why those smart people don't rule the world is because high IQ (in humans!) correlates with social problems and mental illness. The assumption is that this is limitation of…

Why would an AI enslave humans? It'll just kill them and build something more useful to it.

I'd say it is- I can read and delete the whole thing in 5 minutes if I need to replace it with something more complicated. Usually, though, YAGNI

90 percent of apps are slow and unreponsive, and harming people by being so: but software developers aren't directly harmed by the effects of their actions, so the situation contin…

There are 1000x gains on the table! Almost all software is so far from pareto-optimal it's comical! It isn't a tradeoff between readability and efficiency, most software is unreada…

I dislike government intervention, and so disavow my following statement. In the course of fining hidden externalized costs like those of dumping chemical waste into rivers, govern…

I dislike government intervention, and so disavow my following statement. In the course of fining hidden externalized costs like those of dumping chemical waste into rivers, govern…

The government cynically deciding whether or not to feed people doens't seem exclusively or specially capitalist.

Every man needs a semi-autonomous bullet proof drone.

On the upside, I like having access to a forum that excludes everybody too stupid to run an email server.