If AI scaling is to be shut down, let it be for a coherent reason

Re:If AI scaling is to be shut down, let it be for a coheren... by mattmaroon on Friday March 31, 2023 @06:17PM (#35394456)

If bacteria were suddenly smarter than humans, and could instantly communicate with all the other other bacteria, plus humans one would have to assume they could start building their own petri dishes or getting us to do it for them. Especially with profit motive.

I did not claim this is a near term risk, though I’m also not sure it isn’t. But how far off is it? How can we be sure?

My real point though is that it’s either impossible or inevitable. If it can happen it will, just as the odds of global thermonuclear war are 100% over a long enough timeline.

And if it happens, this is exactly what it’ll look like. Some people will be warning about it. Some people will say it’s impossible or very far away. And then it will happen so far nobody will have had time to adjust.

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Re:If AI scaling is to be shut down, let it be for a coheren... by jmull on Friday March 31, 2023 @06:54PM (#35394876)

> My real point though is that it’s either impossible or inevitable.

That’s always been true of every possibility anyone’s ever conceived. You’re just describing the general nature of reality, which is interesting, IMO, but not particularly relevant here and now.

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Re:If AI scaling is to be shut down, let it be for a coheren... by mattmaroon on Friday March 31, 2023 @07:43PM (#35395297)

Lots of things are possible but not inevitable.

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