Re:Hawking: AI could end human race
by Voloskaya on Tuesday December 02, 2014 @08:46AM
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Nice reasoning.
We could die from many other ways, so why should we care about another one?
Why should we care about global warming, I mean, it won't stop asteroids from smashing earth.
Why should we care about nuclear war head proliferation if we might still die because of a virus?
So let's just not give a fuck about anything!
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Re:Hawking: AI could end human race
by shittyanalogy on Tuesday December 02, 2014 @09:28AM
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He's saying that regardless of the hypothesized danger, until there is measurable, non sci-fi proof, it's all just fear mongering. Not that we shouldn't "give a fuck about anything."
You cannot have non sci-fi proof of future events, it will always be unmeasurable theories.
So you can choose to wait and see, and maybe it will be too late or to hard to act when you have sufficient proof.
Or you can choose to start thinking about it now, and see what we can do to to set up safeguards. And perhaps those safeguards will be useless, perhaps not. That's called prevention.
Re:Hawking: AI could end human race
by shittyanalogy on Tuesday December 02, 2014 @09:46AM
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You are not making a cohesive argument. First you were arguing that OP was essentially saying we shouldn't "give a fuck about anything." Now you're arguing that we should "start thinking about it now." Those are two completely different points.
You can do research and testing without fear mongering.