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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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