Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter

Re:Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter by kelseyfrog on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @07:53PM (#35349861)

I wish it was more convincing.

As it stands, it says more about the author's egoistic view of humanity than of AI. Imagine for a second taking Feuerbach's The Essence of Religion and applying it to Descartes' rationality and Plato's nous. We'd get a critique of the rational human's construction of his own ideal - the essence of intellect.

AI threatens this ideal and ego-threats get sublimated into existential threats by those unable to understand themselves well enough to express themselves directly.

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Re:Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter by jimrandomh on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @09:26PM (#35350815)

Maybe it's wrong, and things will be fine. Maybe it's right. But you can't psychoanalyze your way to truth. Whether future AIs will destroy humanity or not is a fact about future AIs, and the landscape of intelligent systems, not a fact about Eliezer Yudkowsky.

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