Re:Yann LeCun: AI one-percenters seizing power forever is re...
by sokoloff on Thursday November 02, 2023 @10:35AM
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I think the probability of humans eventually going extinct is 1. Avoiding it requires almost unimaginable levels of cooperation and technical advances.
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Re:Yann LeCun: AI one-percenters seizing power forever is re...
by boringg on Thursday November 02, 2023 @11:08AM
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Well thats not a difficult position to take. The difficult take is when the timing would be.
The sun is eventually going to explode rendering our solar system uninhabitable though that is a long time away from now and we have many other massive risks to humanity in the meantime.
Re:Yann LeCun: AI one-percenters seizing power forever is re...
by babyshake on Thursday November 02, 2023 @11:56AM
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The end of human civilization as we know it doesn't mean extinction. Why is extinction unavoidable?
Re:Yann LeCun: AI one-percenters seizing power forever is re...
by TeMPOraL on Thursday November 02, 2023 @12:48PM
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Why does extinction matter? If we lose civilization now, we'll be stuck at pre-industrial levels possibly for geological timescales, as we've mined and burned all the high-density energy sources you can get at without already being a high-tech industrial society.
Re:Yann LeCun: AI one-percenters seizing power forever is re...
by ben_w on Thursday November 02, 2023 @12:52PM
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I don't think that would necessarily limit us. Windmills and water mills can be made with wood, stone, and the small quantities of iron that pre-industrial societies could produce.