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Re:Dude, You Broke the Future (2017) by the8472 on Monday July 13, 2020 @07:26AM (#23819546)
Bacteria are self-limiting. Their offspring compete and they don't reshape their environment to be more friendly to their existence. They don't plan for space colonization either. They're a bit of a toy model for a maximizer, not the real threat of an intelligent, self-modifying maximizer.
Re:Dude, You Broke the Future (2017) by WJW on Monday July 13, 2020 @08:50AM (#23820188)
The only argument that seems to be brought forward every time is "if a superintelligent being wants to do stuff, we can't do anything about it because the axiom is that superintelligence means omnipotence". This is not so different from any other religious argument since it's impossible to falsify and therefore meaningless in any scientific sense.
Re:Dude, You Broke the Future (2017) by antepodius on Monday July 13, 2020 @10:45AM (#23821291)
Superintelligence doesn't mean omnipotence. The thing is bound to physics. It's just smarter than you, to some greater or lesser (usually imagined as greater) degree.
Re:Dude, You Broke the Future (2017) by ben_w on Monday July 13, 2020 @11:27AM (#23821765)
That’s the point. They don’t need to be anything like as potent as a AGI or ASI to be an existential threat.