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AI Companies And Advocates Are Becoming More Cult-Like (www.rollingstone.com)
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AI Companies And Advocates Are Becoming More Cult-Like::How one writer's trip to the annual tech conference CES left him with a sinking feeling about the future.

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[–] 25 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Accelerationism is "F U I've got AI" combined with "you've got to burn the world down to rebuild it, so let's start that fire"

Singularitarianism is basically the Christian Rapture but with super intelligent AI.

These ideas have been around some time in tech circles.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    I regularly see people on Lemmy talk about AGI run countries and governments as though it's only a couple years away. Bruh it still struggles with fingers. You really think that's where it will be in a couple of years?

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago

    I'm convinced that ChatGPT or even some open source autocorrect, or a guy with a 24 sided die could run quite a few countries better than the people in charge now to be fair tp the looneys.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    Yeah bro but eXpOnEnTiAl ImProVeMeNt bro!

    And haven’t you heard of Roko’s basilisk? Better be careful what you say on the cybernets, lest our AGI/ASI overlords of 2026 take a disliking to your commentary regarding their eventual supremacy!

    Excuse me while I go back to mining Dogecoin until I can buy enough NFTs to make Elon or Sam Altman notice me.

    /s

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Better be careful what you say

    I know it’s not the point, but that always strikes me as so dumb. Wouldn’t a superintelligent being know that you were simply hiding your true feelings?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Agreed, and it could definitely make such an assumption. The other aspect that I don’t really get is… if a superintelligent entity were to eventuate, why would it care?

    We’re going to be nothing but bugs to it. It’s not likely to be of any consequence to that entity whether or not I expected/want it to exist.

    The anthropomorphising going on with the AI hype is just crazy.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    What bugs me about it is the same problem the wager has. What if there was a later AI that punished you for helping the first one? And a still later one that punished you for not helping the first one. Since the number of invented gods are infinite and have contradictionary commands no action or inaction promises salvation.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    According to everything I read AI is either going to be godlike soon or utterly useless forever. If people can just sit down and not repeat the endless trope of "the enemy is all powerful and all weak at the same time" I would appreciate it.

    Maybe we can just try to rationally evaluate what is going on and where it is going?

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