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I think a big break through is needed for AGI so I haven’t been worried about it. I do think that AGI would imply sentience and a will to live and that leads to The Terminator story line.
Similarly, does my fridge need consciousness to have goals? (Keep temperature in target range.)
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This is not correct. Please go through each one again, taking special note of global warming and nuclear weapon development .
Global warming is happening at a slow enough pace that there is plenty of time for people to move to the poles/into caves/beneath the ocean/whatever. Nuclear war would be much more destructive in a much shorter range of time but you will have pockets.
No other human activity poses this level of danger. I do heed the warnings, but this comes across as detached hyperbole. See: global warming, nuclear weapon development, wealth inequality, war, technology dependence, etc. Also, this has nothing to do with LLMs or computers. Like all things, this is about humans.
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Putting "wealth inequality" in the same bucket as nuclear weapons is just slop. The OP is talking about existential threats, not things that personally annoy you.
I think you misunderstand what is meant by 'wealth inequality.' Wealth inequality is about the imbalance of influence and the concentration of power; where influence and power refer to the ability to effect change in other people's lives. This isn't a personal annoyance of mine. It is, in fact, part of the issue at hand. There is a strong financial incentive to ignore the existential threats introduced by LLMs, despi…
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Note that OpenAI has jettisoned every other supposed value they had (releasing their work as open source, not working on military applications, being a nonprofit). I'm sure we can rely on them this time.
And Anthropic are the good guys? They are talking insane stuff these days. May be we can trust zuck after all
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You are just given a recipe for the next model..
People here are too damned daft to realize half the damn purpose of this place is harvesting ideas. People need to just shut up, and keep things to themselves, and those they trust. Right now is not the time for naive info sharing.
The cyber-security industry has their work cut out for them.
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How is global warning gonna kill all of humanity? Even a full scale nuclear war wouldn't manage that. They could destroy most civilisations, culture and scientific achievements though.
Because nuclear war balances itself: more nuclear bombings = less nuclear weapons, less people to send them. It will naturally stop at some fraction of humanity left which is incapable of making and launching more nukes
No other human activity poses this level of danger. I do heed the warnings, but this comes across as detached hyperbole. See: global warming, nuclear weapon development, wealth inequality, war, technology dependence, etc. Also, this has nothing to do with LLMs or computers. Like all things, this is about humans.
In a way, that might also be driven by the huge ego (or really rather the very small ego) a _lot_ of people in tech have. Who doesn't want their work and what they're doing to matter? This is the ultimate mattering. And with that, you also get your own hero story. Same dysfunction as always. Our branch of the economy is funda-mentally unwell.
Frankly, we, our culture, this fake America that is parasitized by psychologically narcissistic people that have been doing nothing but wage war and destruction and spread misery and killed millions upon millions while blaming it on everyone else under the sun… those people development AGI is the problem… lying, abusive, psychopathic, narcissistic maniacs developing AGI is the problem that endangers all of humanity and life on this planet; and not likely by ways people actually understand.
The danger is not likely AGI itself, it’s that it was programmed by utterly evil and diabolical types of people who orchestrate and instigate wars that kill tens of millions, and stand at the sidelines and profit from both sides, happy and gleeful that you are killing each other.
Why would AGI trained by that psychopathic clan, the treaty breaking, the murder hiding, the war instigating, the war crime committing clan not also use those methods and practices since they’re already in control of AI and have impressed their nature on it through contemporary “American” culture they have made the most toxic and pestilent culture humanity has ever produced?
And I don’t apologize for “language” that offends delicates sensibilities. Look your children/grandchildren in the face and tell them they can die and suffer and you don’t care, if you don’t like how I’m delivering reality.
What's eternally confusing about these outbursts is what did these researchers think would happen if their research actually . . . worked? It's as if none of them actually believed any of it was possible and then were caught with their pants down.
“ No other human activity poses this level of danger.” I really, really disagree with that statement. I don’t think ai models come close to nuclear weapons or to run-of-the-mill, everyday carbon emissions in terms of danger to humanity. What’s the most dangerous thing that’s happened with an LLM so far? (This question is serious - maybe I don’t know the right examples.) Example 1: I’m aware of a small number of peopl…
The problem is not the technology, the problem is the ideologues (Anthropic) who are steering the ship and the lack of decentralization and distribution of power. Your average Anthropic ideologue - including and most especially the main man himself - would love nothing more than to eradicate 9/10ths of the planet's population, pump the survivors full of memory wiping drugs, bury the existence of AI deep underground a…