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Re:Yann LeCun: AI one-percenters seizing power forever is re... by toth on Thursday November 02, 2023 @05:28PM (#38120414)
If we had to have global policing of every large computing cluster and everything that runs there, that does not feel to me like a huge overreach or something that could easily slide into totalitarianism.

It would be better if we didn't need to do this, but I don't see a less intrusive way.

Of course, if you don't think there is a real existential threat then it's pointless and bad to do this, it all depends on that premise.

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Re:Yann LeCun: AI one-percenters seizing power forever is re... by pixl97 on Thursday November 02, 2023 @06:41PM (#38121397)
Intelligence is a real potential existential threat, just ask every large mammal as of about 10k years ago, save those in Africa.

The question is, is an authoritarian nightmare that much better than getting tossed into the meat grinder?

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Re:Yann LeCun: AI one-percenters seizing power forever is re... by toth on Friday November 03, 2023 @05:49AM (#38126462)
> The question is, is an authoritarian nightmare that much better than getting tossed into the meat grinder?

If the choice was between those two extremes, I'd take the authoritarian nightmare.

Extinction is forever, dictatorships end.

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