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Re:Fastest rate of natural carbon dioxide rise over the last... by UniverseHacker on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @12:14PM (#40368918)
It seems so obvious that I am having a hard time understanding your objection... it would feel condescending to try to explain that Terminator is about AGI risk.

The modern conceptualization of AI existential risk comes largely from Vernor Vinge, in particular his essay "The Coming Technological Singularity" but it is also a central theme in most of his works, especially the Zones of Thought series.

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Re:Fastest rate of natural carbon dioxide rise over the last... by 8note on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @01:43PM (#40370083)
I think it's about as much about ai risk as transformers is.

I'm terms of skynet I think you'd be referring to the third one? But that one is about drone strikes, and that's what we do today without AGI - we send out invincible killer robots to go wipe out villages from above because all males above the age of 16 are enemy combatants. The end of the movie could just as easily have been that they find a person behind the skynet controls killing everyone

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Re:Fastest rate of natural carbon dioxide rise over the last... by UniverseHacker on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @01:53PM (#40370195)
The overall plot of Terminator is that an AGI called Skynet becomes self aware and unstoppable sometime in the mid 1980s and humans only hope of survival is to use time travel to destroy it before this happens. I’ll admit this isn’t very well explained to the audience, and the focus is mostly on Arnold blowing things up.
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Re:Fastest rate of natural carbon dioxide rise over the last... by krainboltgreene on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @02:07PM (#40370358)
I don't think anyone is confused about Terminator's plot, but people in this thread are definitely confused about what theme means and how to do literary analysis (not surprising given the context of this website).
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