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Re:Will it be a golden age or a dark age for mathematics (an... by zzzeek on Sunday October 18, 2026 @05:16PM (#50145570)
i see this phrase thrown about a lot but have not seen any "here is how humanity is killed off" scenarios described, not even bad ones much less plausible ones. As long as we dont have a hankering for paperclips that is
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Re:Will it be a golden age or a dark age for mathematics (an... by knottn on Monday October 19, 2026 @03:37AM (#50149471)
Nuclear war. Are you serious?
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Re:Will it be a golden age or a dark age for mathematics (an... by zzzeek on Monday October 19, 2026 @02:16PM (#50155883)
are you serious? they're going to replace humans in charge of nuclear silos with large language models who can directly launch without human interaction? That would be the scenario. If your scenario is "ChatGPT told Trump to launch the missles", AI didn't do that; Trump did.
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Re:Will it be a golden age or a dark age for mathematics (an... by knottn on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @12:19PM (#50168704)
AI isn’t used on the battlefield? War cannot be won against an enemy who uses ai, unless you also use ai. Ai progress/escalation is nuclear escalation, just as ai progress is now the driver of progress in medicine, math, science, law, ….
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