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Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse

234 points · 279 comments · Anon84

  1. petesergeant · · focus · HN ↗
    I'm going to be fucking irritated if we all die because BlueSky posters wanted to take pot-shots at the EA crowd. The Boy Who Cried Wolf is _also_ a story about how a community lost a child because of cynicism, and the people proudly declaring that they "know" every safety concern is just a marketing ploy also concerns me.
    1. int_19h · · focus · HN ↗
      If we all die because of AI, it will be because of the uses that people like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel and Palmer Luckey put it to, not because of a robot uprising.
      1. petesergeant · · focus · HN ↗
        Why not both? I honestly can’t fathom why people think — in an ultra-networked world — why LLMs can’t cause physical consequences.
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