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I love how the conversation around AI was all, 'What if we create God and he punishes us for our hubris?' (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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And not, 'What if someone does this quicker and cheaper than us?'

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Everyone's convinced the second we create God it's going to hate our guts and that is sure a statement on humanity's self-image.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wasn't there a post where an Israeli bot turned on them and started posting anti-idf stuff or something?

So its happening? I guess?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

May Computer God judge us and find us worthy!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Americhristian self- image, but yeah.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

True, there are plenty of people who are probably living their lives free of the shadow of even a benevolent robot god.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

Holy crap! I know the answer to this one.

Forty-two.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

What if someone punishes us for our hubris quicker and cheaper than the God we make?

This is basically the premise of Warren Ellis' Supergod

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Google Roko's basilisk. These people are worse than you think.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Roko's basilisk is a thought experiment which states that an otherwise benevolent artificial superintelligence (AI) in the future would be incentivized to create a virtual reality simulation to torture anyone who knew of its potential existence but did not directly contribute to its advancement or development, in order to incentivize said advancement.

Damn, that the dumbest thing I've heard in a while. Most of the AI discourse I've heard from techbros is baseless conjecture, but the "rational" speculation that an AI would create a torture matrix to force everyone to make it smarter has to be the silliest. I think it says more about the misanthropy of these nerds than anything related to computer science.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

It's Pascal's Wager for Western rationalists

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I'm very familiar with these people and their 'thought hazards'. True-anon's latest episode is a deep dive into these 'rationalists' and This Machine Kills has an episode on effective altruism if you want to make yourself really angry

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

https://youtu.be/SN2YqBmNijU This is very true.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: