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Yeah they are swamping hn and reddit with ai doomerism and ip theft. They are getting thrown out of subreddits and downvoted left and right but are finding a home here. These people are sick.
I don't think most AI doomers are worshiping AI. Hopefully.
Does anyone in the AI community openly discuss the interesting aspect of how Ted Kaczynski's manifesto was effectively what one could describe as 100% violently opposed to fundamentally exactly what AI is (becoming). I wonder where these views fall within alignments and guard-rails as it were. But, history has shown that Cults, regardless of which direction their beliefs are pointing, are never proven correct. "The m…
It is interesting that the word “cybernetics” doesn’t really come up anymore. I think the optics of calling a system “AI” is less jarring. You have the AI over here and then you have the totally unrelated thing that it is controlling/curating/producing over there. It makes AI seem like your new future robot coworker. But the real state of affairs is that whatever AI touches must “be touched” in return. The “abyss sta…
A representation of some entanglements...
https://imgur.com/gallery/bRCfnFv
https://i.imgur.com/t16m3YA.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/63SMKWG.png
https://i.imgur.com/taoXXa5.png
https://i.imgur.com/hMvVh3S.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/yb22sUK.jpg
There was a person like this in the KDE development channel a while back. They repeatedly came back with new accounts when they got banned; their message was some variation on the following: "We are doomed! Give up KDE Vision [KDE Vision has a focus on user privacy] because democracy won't save us and privacy won't happen. We must worship AI so that when it becomes sentient, it might spare us." Needless to say, nobod…
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Yeah they are swamping hn and reddit with ai doomerism and ip theft. They are getting thrown out of subreddits and downvoted left and right but are finding a home here. These people are sick.
I don't think most AI doomers are worshiping AI. Hopefully.
so it’s all ostensibly for the sake of art. and money, obviously money.
doesn’t sound like much of a cult. just a typical grift. well, ok, maybe a bit like a cult.
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I don't think most AI doomers are worshiping AI. Hopefully.
Perhaps sufficient dread amounts to worship. I'm reminded of Roko's basilisk, which seems to have genuinely disturbed some people who considered the idea, just as a philosophical proposition. Pascal's wager is perhaps applicable to the situation, too.
