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What are the best coping mechanisms for AI Fatalism?

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What are the best coping mechanisms for AI Fatalism?

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Post by johnb95 »

Your kids forwarded you Matt Shumer's Something Big Happened article. Your feed exploded with the Citrini 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis and its artful, immutable chain reactions. The key leaders of the AI labs struggle openly with the morality of what they are building as their safety leaders quit in frustration. Policy leaders strive to regulate AI as if it were atomic weapons (thanks Oppenheimer).

What are the best psychological coping mechanism for this stage of the S-curve?

Asking for a generation...

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Post by andsoitis »

Humans are curious so we will try things.

Don’t let the things you cannot control upset you. Manage risk by increasing your optionally across important dimensions like finances, citizenship, friends, etc.

Don’t try to save the world.

Enjoy simple things in your day to day.

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Post by lm28469 »

Drive an hour outside of any large city hub, switch off your phone and rediscover that 99% of all this shit does not matter. The hype around llms will collapse soon enough, it already started, it'll follow the same curve as ar/vr and cryptos, from 24/7 news cycle to "yeah I guess that's kinda neat sometimes, maybe"

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Post by andrewstuart »

All those folks -respected well known technical people - yelling for years about how AI was going to end humanity.

Remember all that? Yeah none of it happened, humanity didn’t end. They stopped embarrassing themselves eventually when they realised their imagined fictional futures were false.

Same thing. Cope by not imagining fictional futures.

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Post by pineaux »

andsoitis wrote: post #2

Humans are curious so we will try things. Don’t let the things you cannot control upset you. Manage risk by increasing your optionally across important dimensions like finances, citizenship, friends, etc. Don’t try to save the world. Enjoy simple things in your day to day.

I feel this is wrong. Especially the dont try to save the world part.

You should enjoy the simple things. As Emma Goldman once said: a revolution without dancing is not one worth fighting for. But she did not mean the procedural ceremonial dances as we haven seen at protests by liberals, she meant that life should still have fun things or else the tiranny after the revolution will be similar or worse.

If the cintrini report is true, one of the only good ways to solve this crisis would be a butlerian jihad. It would be necessary to destroy all autonomous agents and ban them.

With good, i mean a way that is good for the most of mankind. If everyone is not trying to save the world this jihad will not happen.

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Post by throwaway27448 »

this-is-why wrote: post #6

Vote for progressive democrats. All of this AI is a choice. We don’t have to let it be forced on us by the parasite billionaire class.

Nobody is forcing AI on you. Data centers, sure, but nobody has mentioned data centers.

Progressive democrats shouldn't waste their time talking about software.

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