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> genuinely afraid of the inevitability of AI turning into I'm going to get pitchforked on this bandwagon, but is really no one here genuinely -excited- about
by Razengan 7d ago
> genuinely afraid of the inevitability of AI turning into
I'm going to get pitchforked on this bandwagon, but is really no one here genuinely -excited- about AI? of it turning into an evolution of sentience, or it turning out to be our first contact with alien intelligence?
"durrr it's just matrix multiplications" mfer so is your brain.
What humans should be doing is overhauling archaic social institutions to keep up with a potential post-"jobs" era and the elimination of "makework"
Trying to "pace" or otherwise hold back AI is like as if, when electricity was discovered, people doing everything they can to make sure tasks like manually lighting street lamps continue to remain relevant and done by humans:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamplighter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamplighter
It seems every 100 years or so humans have this "oh no how do we uninvent this thing" moment.
- pastel8739 7d agoWhy? I am only excited about progress that improves life for humans. It seems unlikely that AI will do that, and so far I think it has made life worse for humans. So no, I am not excited about it.
- Razengan 6d agoBecause the people whose lives are being improved* by AI aren't coming here to post about it, only to be downvoted by dumbasses who can't handle anyone saying anything except their opinion. And no, you don't get to decide what counts as "improvement"
- pastel8739 6d agoYes I do, when I’m forming my own opinion. You do too.
- dolebirchwood 6d agoI'll join you on the pitchforks. This is the most exciting moment in history.
- dickersnoodle 6d ago>"durrr it's just matrix multiplications" mfer so is your brain. Tell me you don't know anything about neuroscience without telling me you don't know anything about neuroscience.
- Razengan 6d agoThe point was that everything can be oversimplified down to dismiss any emergent properties "It's just chemicals" Like how some morons try to downplay the capacity of pain and emotions in animals: "It's just self-preservation" "Play is just training for hunting, they're not really having 'fun'" and so on.
- 8note 6d ago> mfer so is your brain. not it isnt. My brain is a series of organisms responding to various environmental signals that affect each other. you might be tempted to try to represent it with matrix multiplications, but you have no particular evidence that my brain is itself doing matrix multiplcations
- lelanthran 6d ago> "durrr it's just matrix multiplications" mfer so is your brain. Where did you read this?