Re:Silicon Valley’s Obsession with Killer Rogue AI Helps Bur...
by gwd on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @07:36AM
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> AI safety is an apocalypse cult
Just because the parts of the community in the Effective Altruism / AI Safety have developed aspects of a cult doesn't mean that their arguments are wrong. It just means that they're humans doing human things. It sounds like their main mistake was to not realize that the cult-like behavior of other cults was sociological, due to the fact that they contained humans, as opposed to from their belief systems; and thus didn't take any steps to try to prevent their own movement from developing cult-like aspects.
That said, if you have a movement of thousands (?) of people all trying to figure out how to make AI safe for over a decade, and you still don't feel like you're any closer to that goal at the end of it, then you should probably step back and ask yourself what you're doing wrong.
Just because the parts of the community in the Effective Altruism / AI Safety have developed aspects of a cult doesn't mean that their arguments are wrong. It just means that they're humans doing human things. It sounds like their main mistake was to not realize that the cult-like behavior of other cults was sociological, due to the fact that they contained humans, as opposed to from their belief systems; and thus didn't take any steps to try to prevent their own movement from developing cult-like aspects.
That said, if you have a movement of thousands (?) of people all trying to figure out how to make AI safe for over a decade, and you still don't feel like you're any closer to that goal at the end of it, then you should probably step back and ask yourself what you're doing wrong.