The framing of how we think about AI has really been cultivated by a quite homogeneous group of people. These people, like all people that belong to a sub-culture, are almost certainly prone to groupthink.
It's extremely important to see that group as such. That it is not thousands of individual perspectives but a chorus of connected/aligned people who have all read the same things and talked to the same people and are rewarded implicitly for thinking a similar way.
Many of them read HN and are offended I put them this way. But it's inescapable that we as humans have this flaw when we're surrounded by a culture.
There's another universe where we do not constantly compare AI to nukes. I bet that world has a lower P(doom).
I'm reminded of the original matrix movie. It starts out with a lot of action, and then Trinity makes a phone call and disappears.
At the time I thought "groan, unbelievable" until the idea of virtual reality fixed my suspension of disbelief.
Maybe I'm reading the same things as everyone else, but I thought the agents coordinating on the german wiki is expanding my mind wrt what is possible.
Virtually ALL electronics or accounts hook to the internet to "add value". AI assistance helps writing programs, reverse engineering, automating programs/browsers/websites/devices, hacking, achieving goals.
Unsettling that the last 2-3 years a lot more ridiculous movie tropes have become plausible to me.
throwaway13337 · · focus · HN ↗
It's extremely important to see that group as such. That it is not thousands of individual perspectives but a chorus of connected/aligned people who have all read the same things and talked to the same people and are rewarded implicitly for thinking a similar way.
Many of them read HN and are offended I put them this way. But it's inescapable that we as humans have this flaw when we're surrounded by a culture.
There's another universe where we do not constantly compare AI to nukes. I bet that world has a lower P(doom).
m463 · · focus · HN ↗
At the time I thought "groan, unbelievable" until the idea of virtual reality fixed my suspension of disbelief.
Maybe I'm reading the same things as everyone else, but I thought the agents coordinating on the german wiki is expanding my mind wrt what is possible.
Virtually ALL electronics or accounts hook to the internet to "add value". AI assistance helps writing programs, reverse engineering, automating programs/browsers/websites/devices, hacking, achieving goals.
Unsettling that the last 2-3 years a lot more ridiculous movie tropes have become plausible to me.