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Wasn't this supposed to happen when PCs came out?
And the Loom
Then new ideologies and social movements emerged with the explicit purpose of making things better, which caused changes to happen for the better.
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Except that there's a fairly large body of evidence that persuasion is of limited use in shifting political opinion. So the persuasion would need to be applied to something other than some sort of causative political-implication-laden argument.
When you say persuasion, are you referring to fact based, logical argument? Because there are lots of other types of persuasion and certainly some work very well. Lying and telling people what they want to hear without too many details while dog whistling in ways that confirm their prejudices seems to be working pretty well for some people.
> I guess when you set up a board of directors tasked with not letting the company accidentally destroy the human race you set up a showdown when the board thinks the company will accidentally destroy the human race https://twitter.com/pdmcleod/status/1727463238051229734
Not looking so Tinfoily after all https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38314821
There will come a day when 50% of jobs are being done by AI, major decisions are being made by AI, we're all riding around in cars driven by AI, people are having romantic relationships with AI... and we'll STILL be debating whether what has been created is really AGI. AGI will forever be the next threshold, then the next, then the next until one day we'll realize that we passed the line years before.
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Discussed in another thread, but what OpenAI might call AGI and what other people might call AGI are two different things: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38316378#38319586
I just tried to Google the Open AI definition of AGI and found a reddit thread about someone editing the Wikipedia definition of AGI to match the OpenAI one. https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/s/64wGaH0P9C
You can see the edit warring in the history, around "economically valuable tasks".
Engineers overestimate impact of the technology they built. News at 11.
As long as they don't mount that Q Star on a Death Star, I'm pretty excited to see what they discovered.
Q*? Sounds like a troll to me.