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Re:Why are you so sure I'll lose? by jacquesm on Thursday December 14, 2023 @05:57AM (#38640025)
Sure, I've seen those movies. But today it's the guys with the guns/drones/grenades/missiles.

I'm worried about stable dictatorships far more than I am about AGI taking over the world and offing humanity because stable dictatorships are already using every weapon they can lay their hands on to control the population and AGI might just tip the scale to the point where they become eternal. And regular AI (the kind that we have today, because AGI is simply not yet a thing that has been achieved afaik) is more than dangerous enough in that context.

Re:Why are you so sure I'll lose? by mitthrowaway2 on Thursday December 14, 2023 @10:45AM (#38642592)
> But today

There's no question that this is a tomorrow-focused concern, just like climate change or Kessler syndrome, et cetera.

And today's concerns are important too. Nobody is dismissing them. But tomorrow comes quite quickly these days.

You're allowed to be concerned about both.

Re:Why are you so sure I'll lose? by jacquesm on Thursday December 14, 2023 @11:11AM (#38642919)
Depending on where you live climate change may very well be a today thing.

Kessler syndrome not so much.

Guys with guns and missiles: very much a today thing.

Re:Why are you so sure I'll lose? by NoGravitas on Thursday December 14, 2023 @12:06PM (#38643788)
I mean, via Starlink, Musk is working pretty hard on making Kessler Syndrome a today thing as fast as possible.
Re:Why are you so sure I'll lose? by jacquesm on Thursday December 14, 2023 @08:34PM (#38650012)
Not in LEO.