Why am I not terrified of AI? • Hacker News Board

Re: Why am I not terrified of AI?

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Post by 1attice » Tue, Mar 07, 2023, 6:19 PM UTC

swidi wrote: post #20

1attice wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What a fantastic (and apposite!) response to the question -- and the article made me nostalgic for the days when intellectuals disdained television, rather than hoard lore about HBO miniseries. Not because they were better, but because I was young then. :)

schlorb schlorb schlorb schlorb schlorb

This is the thoughtful discourse for which I come to HN! The moderation system is working perfectly; I await this comment's upvote.

Re: Why am I not terrified of AI?

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Post by grantcas » Tue, Mar 07, 2023, 6:40 PM UTC

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Re: Why am I not terrified of AI?

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Post by icha » Wed, Mar 08, 2023, 10:22 AM UTC

Lots of words, zero reasoning.

Re: Why am I not terrified of AI?

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Post by inkblotuniverse » Thu, Mar 09, 2023, 8:28 AM UTC

azatom wrote: post #35

I'm not terrified of guns. Guns don't kill people. I'm not terrified of numbers. Numbers don't lie. I'm not terrified of AI. AI don't ... enslave humans?

Why would an AI enslave humans? It'll just kill them and build something more useful to it.

Re: Why am I not terrified of AI?

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Post by inkblotuniverse » Thu, Mar 09, 2023, 8:40 AM UTC

Barrin92 wrote: post #23

The only AI I'm terrified of is AI overhyped by people and then used for something it's way too stupid for. AI existential risk to me is fundamentally a nerd revenge fantasy. AI fears come out of a modern enlightenment tradition that elevates disembodied minds to some kind of godlike status. It falsely equates reason and intellect with power. In reality that's never really the case, or all the rationalist, 200 IQ peo…

Part of why those smart people don't rule the world is because high IQ (in humans!) correlates with social problems and mental illness. The assumption is that this is limitation of human brains and that an AI would be less trade-off-y, and you could get one with Aaronson's understanding of quantum computers and the charisma of the greatest politician in recorded history. And when such a nascent AI needs stuff done in the real world, I imagine it could get in on the 'scamming the elderly' game (very lucrative, I hear!) and then pay some humans to do what it wants.

Re: Why am I not terrified of AI?

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Post by azatom » Sat, Mar 11, 2023, 5:03 PM UTC

inkblotuniverse wrote: post #54

azatom wrote: post #35

I'm not terrified of guns. Guns don't kill people. I'm not terrified of numbers. Numbers don't lie. I'm not terrified of AI. AI don't ... enslave humans?

Why would an AI enslave humans? It'll just kill them and build something more useful to it.

I'd be happy with that, but as I implied I think of it as a tool of big corps. And those are stil got too much influence by stupid people.