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Re:Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter by zuminator on Thursday March 30, 2023 @08:05AM (#35371336)
I think most people already understand "saving the planet" to be a figure of speech, a synecdoche where "the planet" means life, humanity, our world's hospitable climate, etc.
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Re:Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter by meltyness on Thursday March 30, 2023 @10:24PM (#35381678)
If you're cynical and paranoid enough, you might suspect environmentalism is entirely a smug way to discuss culture and exclude people, a sort of verbal dollhouse for gossip.
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Re:Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter by ben_w on Friday March 31, 2023 @04:20AM (#35384179)
Comme ci, comme ça.

When it comes to nukes in particular, I get the impression the belief of normal people is it can go all the way to Alderaan. Yes, even though that's wrong by many orders of magnitude.

VN swarms, while currently sci-fi and dismissed by normal people, are a much discussed outcome for ASI, and seem to be taken seriously in such circles.

Everything else, sure — us != planet.

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