It's a fine rough outline for a story. Needs work though.
Skynet won and destroyed humanity
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#52Absolutely fantastic, well done! I wish I encountered more scifi like this on HN or elsewhere. If anyone has any good general resource or reading recommendations please share them!
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#53This kind of speculative doomsday fiction is getting a bit played out. We get it, AI is going to destroy us all using social media! Maybe work in Blockchain in there somehow.
It’s been played out since Terminator came out IMO
The fear of AI/the fear of aliens IMO is propaganda to cover up the fact that technological advancement is highly correlated with sociological advancement. If people took this fact seriously, they might start wondering whether or not technological advancement actually causes sociological advancement, and if they started to question that then they’d come across all the evidence showing that what we normally think of as “civilized” and “intelligent” behavior is actually just the result of generational wealth, status, and power.
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#54I think this might be about chat.com
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#55Absolutely fantastic, well done! I wish I encountered more scifi like this on HN or elsewhere. If anyone has any good general resource or reading recommendations please share them!
You'd probably like qntm: https://qntm.org/fiction
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
For a machine that could invent time travel, it was impressively stupid.
“But as dumb as it is, it's dumb very, very fast, and in the future, after it's all but wiped us out, it's dumb fast enough to be a problem.” https://m.fanfiction.net/s/9658524/1/Branches-on-the-Tree-of...
Just gonna say, that line goes incredibly hard as perhaps one of the better ideas about unsafe AI.
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#57This kind of speculative doomsday fiction is getting a bit played out. We get it, AI is going to destroy us all using social media! Maybe work in Blockchain in there somehow.
It’s been played out since Terminator came out IMO The fear of AI/the fear of aliens IMO is propaganda to cover up the fact that technological advancement is highly correlated with sociological advancement. If people took this fact seriously, they might start wondering whether or not technological advancement actually causes sociological advancement, and if they started to question that then they’d come across all th…
Although people seem to always forget the 1970 movie "Colossus: The Forbin Project" which already had done the "rogue AI in control of weapons decides to go against humanity" thing already.
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#58Absolutely fantastic, well done! I wish I encountered more scifi like this on HN or elsewhere. If anyone has any good general resource or reading recommendations please share them!
For another, more detailed take on the same topic, but with a more competent "villain", check this out: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KFJ2LFogYqzfGB3uX/how-ai-tak...
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#59I love sci-fi! Thanks for sharing. However to destroy humans, violence is not necessary. All you need is the power of language. How many people have died because of a false belief? An AI only has to convince humans to “drink the koolaid” or murder another religion in the name of yours.
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#60This kind of speculative doomsday fiction is getting a bit played out. We get it, AI is going to destroy us all using social media! Maybe work in Blockchain in there somehow.
That is what Skynet would say, yes.