mwattsun

    Location: San Jose
    Remote: Yes
    Willing to relocate: No
    Technologies: These days I mostly use C# and Python, but have used several others
    Résumé/CV: I deleted my LinkedIn account because I'm retired, but resume available
    Email: See Hacker News profile for contact information

https://www.folklore.org/Monkey_Lives.html

Pretenders - My City Was Gone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thu8DWsirJo

Edit: I'm not living there. I'm over the hill in San Jose where rents are more affordable and I can't move back.

Edit2: The locals blame giving UCSC students a vote in local politics on our woes, because they are transients, progressive and don't understand local issues, preferring to preserve greenspace and the environment over growth. I'm happy with the greenspace and acccept the cost of maintaining it - I'm not complaining, merely sharing how strange it is to be priced out of your home town.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble_Mine

Transcript starting at 5:24 mark:

AGI a computer system that can do any job or any task that a human does, but only better. There is some probability the AGI is going to happen pretty soon. There's also some probability it's going to take much longer, but my position is that the probability that AGI would happen soon is high enough that we should take it seriously and it's going to be very important to make these very smart capable systems be aligned and act in our best interest.

The very first AGIs will be basically very very large data centers packed with specialized neural network processors working in parallel compact hot power hungry package consuming like 10 million homes worth of energy. You're going to see dramatically more intelligent systems and I think it's highly likely that those systems will have completely astronomical impact on society. Will humans actually benefit and who will benefit? Who will not the beliefs and desires of the first AGIs will be extremely important and so it's important to program them correctly. I think that if this is not done then the nature of evolution of natural selection favor those systems prioritize their own Survival above all else.

It's not that it's going to actively hate humans and want to harm them but it is going to be too powerful and I think a good analogy would be the way human humans treat animals. It's not we hate animals. I think humans love animals and have a lot of affection for them, but when the time comes to build a highway between two cities we are not asking the animals for permission. We just do it because it's important for us and I think by default that's the kind of relationship that's going to be between us and AGIs which are truly autonomous and operating on their own behalf.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q73LMKKxbc&list=PL6vwnon3sI...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HQqXllXpfQ

I totally agree with you, just leave and see if a change of scenery and getting away from people might bring a new perspective.

I did that in an attempt to get sober. I realized that if I stayed home drinking I was going to die, so I moved out one day and hit the road. The experience now forms the foundation of my sobriety. "When I’m alone in epic nature, I feel my own power" is how the article describes it.

I've never explained what I was doing to my family and no one ever asked, but this short article comes closest to an explanation.

A conversation with Nick Bostrom, a philosopher at Oxford, who has spent decades preparing for the day artificial intelligence is capable of anything the human brain can do.