Re:US and UK refuse to sign AI safety declaration at summit
by ben_w on Saturday February 15, 2025 @09:03AM
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> Some famines may follow, but likely not enough to endanger civilization as a whole.
I'm not confident enough to rely on that: most people in the west have never encountered a famine, only much milder things like the price of one or two staples being high — eggs currently — never all of them at once.
What will we do to ourselves if we face a famine? Will we go to war (or exterminate the local "undesirables") like the old days?
How fragile are we now, compared to the last time that happened? How much has specialisation meant that the elimination of certain minorities will just break everything? "Furries run the internet", as the memes say. What other sectors are over-represented by a small minority?
I'm not confident enough to rely on that: most people in the west have never encountered a famine, only much milder things like the price of one or two staples being high — eggs currently — never all of them at once.
What will we do to ourselves if we face a famine? Will we go to war (or exterminate the local "undesirables") like the old days?
How fragile are we now, compared to the last time that happened? How much has specialisation meant that the elimination of certain minorities will just break everything? "Furries run the internet", as the memes say. What other sectors are over-represented by a small minority?