What If We Could Have A Future? | Defector
Maybe you have heard of Roko’s Basilisk. This is a thought experiment, for lack of a better term, popular among a certain set: hyper-rationalists, futurists, effective altruists. Tech-industry guys. Y...
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There are plenty of good reasons to unplug Claude without including the fear that it will hack your smart refrigerator and tell it to eat you. defector.com/what-if-we-c...
“No: I am very pleased to tell you that Autocorrect will not be exterminating humanity.” From @albertburneko.bsky.social defector.com/what-if-we-c...
this is great https://defector.com/what-if-we-could-have-a-future > This is the insidious lie at the core of the AI movement. It disguises itself as a vision of progress and change, of a bright future, while at bottom resting on the idea that neither progress nor change are meaningfully […]
"What the AI alarmists inside the AI industry overwhelmingly want is not for the development of AI to be halted or slowed. They want it to be accepted as inevitable."
"Maybe these assholes truly believe AI might kill all humans. What they definitely do not believe in is a future where humans can decide, collectively, that we do not want and simply will not permit any technology with the capacity to do that." 👍 defector.com/what-if-we-c...
Lunchtime Reading This piece in Defector is required reading (it’s not long, but it is thought provoking): What If We Could Have A Future? and this is the nugget, the thesis for the piece that got my enthusiastic attention: "What the AI alarmists inside the AI industry overwhelmingly want is not…
“Maybe these assholes truly believe AI might kill all humans. What they definitely do not believe in is a future where humans can decide, collectively, that we do not want and simply will not permit any technology with the capacity to do that.” @albertburneko.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥 as ever
Again, all these dorks read the same books I did (Dune, The Suneater, most of Philip K Dick, Murderbot, I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream, etc) featuring humanity's near-annihilation at the hands of machine intelligence (which LLMs are not) and learned the wrong lessons. defector.com/what-if-we-c...
A heater by @albertburneko.bsky.social for @defector.com. Too many good quotes to choose just one, so here are some of my favs... defector.com/what-if-we-c...
Albert Burneko’s writing on this subject is a nontrivial factor in keeping me sane these days. gift link: defector.com/what-if-we-c...
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every day do you too also sink to the floor by your laptop and scream desperately BETTER THINGS ARE POSSIBLE?!! defector.com/what-if-we-c...
YUP “The most exhausting humans who ever lived, that is to say. People who at present happen to command a critical share of the world economy.”
I always enjoy @defector.com's forays into non-sports topics. I have a number of friends here who might find this piece interesting. What If We Could Have A Future? - defector.com/what-if-we-c...
"Humanity can't decide 𝘯𝘰𝘵 to do the stupid thing; all we can do is accommodate ourselves to the stupid thing's inevitability and hope to sand the sharp edges off the stupid thing's extremities." defector.com/what-if-we-c...
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"What the AI alarmists inside the AI industry overwhelmingly want is not for the development of AI to be halted or slowed. They want it to be accepted as inevitable. Their goal is to move the discussion past the Should we? question to the How should we? question."