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Re:Why are you so sure I'll lose? by navane on Thursday December 14, 2023 @04:12AM (#38639381)
Why does the young kid only get to play once? It's not as it'll beat StockFish after any amount of games?
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Re:Why are you so sure I'll lose? by underyx on Thursday December 14, 2023 @04:12AM (#38639388)
It’s an analogy for humans vs. misaligned AI. If humanity is destroyed by misaligned AI, we don’t get to play again.
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Re:Why are you so sure I'll lose? by nvm0n2 on Thursday December 14, 2023 @03:43PM (#38646975)
The guy who wrote the post is an AI doomer who believes that the moment AI becomes "general" it will recursively improve itself into being a god and then immediately kill everyone, and that will happen so fast that there won't be any time to switch it off. Hence only one play.

The idea is nonsensical and the ending of the story is also nonsensical as a consequence, but that's what it's about.

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