Re:Why OpenAI Fired Sam Altman – and What Happens Next in th...
by api on Saturday November 18, 2023 @09:08AM
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There is, but we are absolutely terrible at any middle ground at scale. People stake out extreme positions, like Yudkowski vs e/acc, and defend them to the death.
Nuanced thinking doesn’t fit in a short memetic sound bite or 140 characters.
Given that we are awful at moderation and if I am forced to choose, I say go. As it stands our technological society will not survive without major advancements in areas like energy, and AI could help us do that.
Contrast that with the risks which are far more hypothetical than nuclear power. As it stands zero people have been harmed by an AI without a human instructing the AI to do harm. There have been no “meltdowns” that were unintended and we are not even sure it’s likely or even plausible.
Our civilization is like a transatlantic flight that has passed the half way mark and no longer has the fuel to turn around. The mechanism here is that our population is vastly higher than what can be supported without technology. The evolutionary ratchet has clicked. We are committed.
Nuanced thinking doesn’t fit in a short memetic sound bite or 140 characters.
Given that we are awful at moderation and if I am forced to choose, I say go. As it stands our technological society will not survive without major advancements in areas like energy, and AI could help us do that.
Contrast that with the risks which are far more hypothetical than nuclear power. As it stands zero people have been harmed by an AI without a human instructing the AI to do harm. There have been no “meltdowns” that were unintended and we are not even sure it’s likely or even plausible.
Our civilization is like a transatlantic flight that has passed the half way mark and no longer has the fuel to turn around. The mechanism here is that our population is vastly higher than what can be supported without technology. The evolutionary ratchet has clicked. We are committed.