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

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[–] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 4 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] HoiPolloi@hexbear.net 9 points 19 hours 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.

[–] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 19 hours ago

It's Pascal's Wager for Western rationalists

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