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Re:OpenAI and Elon Musk by lupire on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @08:30AM (#39615741)
So the AGI holocaust would be a good thing for the advancement of life, like the Oxygen Holocaust was.

Anyway, the Oxygen Holocaust took over 300,000,000 years. Not quite "sudden".

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Re:OpenAI and Elon Musk by FeepingCreature on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @11:58AM (#39617991)
As I understand the Wikipedia article, nobody quite knows why it took that long, but one hypothesis is that the oxygen being produced also killed the organisms producing it, causing a balance until evolution caught up. This will presumably not be an issue for AI-produced nanoswarms.
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Re:OpenAI and Elon Musk by Qwertious on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @11:04AM (#39617350)
We don't care about the advancement of life, we care about the advancement of people.
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