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1. zzzeek · 1790631498 · focus · HN ↗

   what a sad state of affairs to have insane people running these companies and insane "rationalist" communities making it all about "the end of humanity" when meanwhile in day to day AI use Pete Hegseth uses it to target military targets, shrugging his shoulders when it's a girl's school instead. This actual horrific outcome does not seem to matter not only to either of these communities, who continue to be locked into thinking The Terminator was non-fiction (and have people like Bernie Sanders on board).

   1. scroot · 1790631677 · focus · HN ↗

      I am reminded of a line from Ulrich Beck, who said that real risk comes "on cat's paws"
   2. suopspaces · 1790633025 · focus · HN ↗

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   3. ryeights · 1790633819 · focus · HN ↗

      Zitronian dreck. It’s possible to be concerned with multiple aspects of a technology at once

      1. zzzeek · 1790638254 · focus · HN ↗

         zitron talks about valuations and business models and most importantly he makes many many concrete predictions that are wrong. I've never heard him talk about ethics. my comment is more Gibru-ean. I'm not an across-the-board Gibruist but "we should not be using AI to build autonomous weapons and put them in the hands of fascists" is certainly a position I can get on board with. not to mention "they're trying to make you think AI is going to become superintelligent because they're looking for regulatory capture" which is also backed up by stories such as [1]

         [1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=49868083">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=49868083

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