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1. stephbook · 1790599773 · focus · HN ↗

   We've had movies like Terminator, Matrix, or i, Robot. Black Mirror Metalhead. Boston dynamics robo dog with a knife or a gun. Humanoids doing back flips. Memes making fun of how we are going to fight these for access to water.

   The intelligence is there and so is the physical incarnation.

   Google's models fold proteins better than humans and Covid might have been engineered and inadvertently escaped from a lab.

   But when CEOs warn of that, they're dismissed as scare mongers. Why? Are only powerless internet commentators allowed to be fearful?

   1. patcon · 1790601819 · focus · HN ↗

      holy heck, thank you for the moderating dose of sanity. HN comments feel like a death cult lately. All I can think is that this is intelligence addiction speaking.

      I say this as an intense user of these tools. But they should rightfully be understood as terrifying, and their continued frontier development is imho not safe.

      1. asjfkdlf · 1790605151 · focus · HN ↗

         It’s crazy to read all the comments basically dismissing everything. It’s either complete regulatory capture or no regulation at all. How about at least some reasonable regulation? Fine, assume the CEOs don’t care about safety and want regulatory capture.

         We can ignore that and push for something reasonable. In other industries such as housing construction we have building codes without making housing construction a monopoly. We don’t just let random people build nuclear power plants and then go “if you think it’s dangerous, stop doing it.” People are going to do dangerous things even when they know it’s dangerous. They also know it’s dangerous.

         1. patcon · 1790610011 · focus · HN ↗

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