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Re:Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter by endtime on Thursday March 30, 2023 @03:19PM (#35377641)
I think you are missing some nuance what people are concerned about and why. This article spells it out pretty clearly, I think: https://time.com/6266923/ai-eliezer-yudkowsky-open-letter-no...

I agree that comparing nukes to superhuman AGI is an imperfect analogy, because nukes don't have goals.

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Re:Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter by zamalek on Thursday March 30, 2023 @07:41PM (#35380395)
Nukes do have goals, they share the goals of those who launch them. What I am afraid of not AI, rather I am afraid of what AI is forced to do.
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Re:Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter by detrites on Friday March 31, 2023 @09:33AM (#35386925)
I can't locate any nuance in that article. Hyperbole, panic and many unfounded assumptions serving those first two, easy.

Good for clicks and getting an extremely manipulatable public coming back for more, I guess.

Historically, whenever we have created new technology that is amazing and impactful but that all of the positives/negatives are not fully understood, it's worked out fine. If we want to be scientific about it, that's our observable knowledge here.

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