“It’s gonna take over the world! It’s going to destroy humanity!”
MOTHERFUCKER IF YOU’RE SO WORRIED STOP BUILDING IT!
This commentary provided while going through a pained listen of Trueanon’s episode on the LessWrong cult. UlyessesT if you’re out there I understand your suffering.
I thought we kinda moved past all that pseudo (not even pseudo… less than that) BS around AI (“uhh, the world. Uhhhhhhh. Can you imagine, uhh, it will, uhhh, yeah. Yeah.”) Like 10 years ago. But probably not… unfortunately I have a habit of coping with stuff by hearing it and thinking “oh yeah that’s dumb as hell.” Then falsely believing everyone else also realizes it
I do remember Elon, among many, whining on about the “singularity” or whatever. The chatbot singularity is coming! Any day now.
Then the motherfucker kept funding “AI” research. The only conclusion you can reach is “They are using this as a selling point…”
Some tried framing it like “China bad! We good! We must make!” (Real “God is real and he’s an American!” vibes)