Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People

Re:Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People by usrbinbash on Sunday May 28, 2023 @02:22PM (#36106445)

There is a difference between "X didn't happen" and "X wasn't possible".

Hitler could have been assassinated. It was tried multiple times:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assassination_attempts...

None of these attempts failed because the act of assassinating Hitler was technically impossible, they failed to chance, unfavorable conditions, intervention, human error, etc. Given enough attempts, eventuelly one of them would have succeeded.

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Re:Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People by flangola7 on Monday May 29, 2023 @03:05PM (#36116882)

What kind of upsidedown bar for safety is that? Hey our car isn't a death trap, given enough collisions someone will survive eventually!

"We tried to shut down the AI multiple times. It killed many millions of people but eventually we did it! You see, AI is safe!"

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