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Re:DeepMind’s AlphaCode Conquers Coding, Performing as Well ... by andrewjl on Thursday December 15, 2022 @10:15PM (#34009465)
> Sorry for the bleak comment but this my fear and I feel the genie is already out of the box.

The bleakness you feel might be due to a poverty of imagination.

> Life will be like a computer game with cheat-codes, whenever we struggle with something, instead of fighting on and improving we will turn to our universal cheat-engine: AI.

One such example of the above.

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Re:DeepMind’s AlphaCode Conquers Coding, Performing as Well ... by amag on Friday December 16, 2022 @06:46AM (#34013515)
> The bleakness you feel might be due to a poverty of imagination.

Thank you for your diagnosis. It may _also_ be due to the opposite. If you know anything about how the brain works, you'd know that in general more imaginative people are more anxious.

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Re:DeepMind’s AlphaCode Conquers Coding, Performing as Well ... by andrewjl on Sunday December 18, 2022 @10:57PM (#34048280)
Conceding that there are many types of anxiety what I read sounds rather like tunnel vision. That is not just unhelpful but can become harmful since yes these new technologies can be misused. Avoiding that is more likely when thinking flexibly.
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