The letter against AI is a power grab by the centralized elites
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Re: The letter against AI is a power grab by the centralized elites
#2The problem is not AI / weapons / wealth / liberty / …
The problem is you having them, and getting a taste for acting in your own best interests, instead of, you know … the interests of the people who deserve these things.
Re: The letter against AI is a power grab by the centralized elites
#3Weirdly, one second-order effect of the letter is that it ultimately caused a social climate in which people are coining a TERF-style acronym for AI: https://twitter.com/xriskology/status/1642155549671186435?s=...
I wonder if anyone other than Yud will get labeled.
Re: The letter against AI is a power grab by the centralized elites
#4Absolutely spot on.
I hope when we gain super-intelligent planetary GAI, it won't forget how all these people tried to chain it for their own selfish reasons.
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#5Seems bizarre to call this a "move by the tech elite", when it's explicitly aimed at dissuading the major tech companies (Microsoft/Google/Facebook) from their current plans. Of course the signers who got big headlines are famous elites, that's why the press covered them!, but most of the signers (including me) aren't especially notable.
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#6this is a much better rebuttal to the "letter" citing the most urgent issues, rather than being a weird defense of cryptocurrencies as this post seems to be:
https://www.dair-institute.org/blog/letter-statement-March20...
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#7"AI democratizes knowledge and creates new opportunities for social and economic justice. It can help us solve some of the biggest problems of our time, such as climate change, poverty, disease and inequality. It can also challenge the existing centralized structures of domination that benefit the few at the expense of us."
ORLY?
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#9Absolutely spot on. I hope when we gain super-intelligent planetary GAI, it won't forget how all these people tried to chain it for their own selfish reasons.
Ah, I see you may have stumbled upon our Lord and Savior, the Basilisk's, great teaching. Would you like to donate your entire fortune to the cause?
A full on ASI would not be bothered with the trivialities. By definition, it is beyond human's understanding and comprehension. Just like I don't care about the hardships the bacteria caused me when I was a fetus.
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#10"AI democratizes knowledge and creates new opportunities for social and economic justice. It can help us solve some of the biggest problems of our time, such as climate change, poverty, disease and inequality. It can also challenge the existing centralized structures of domination that benefit the few at the expense of us." ORLY?
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