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1. edot · 1791067681 · focus · HN ↗

   Absolutely based. Finally someone of stature in the industry calling this whole fear overblown. Bill Gates sounded like a nontechnical goofball in his Ezra Klein interview where he basically just screamed that the Terminator is real.

   There are lots of real worries (government use to suppress the people with minimal manpower or popular support, brainrot and fake news, unemployment due to the belief that LLMs can replace people, education collapse, etc.) we should instead be looking at. This whole rogue AI shtick is tiresome.

   1. Barrin92 · 1791070504 · focus · HN ↗

      >Bill Gates sounded like a nontechnical goofball in his Ezra Klein interview where he basically just screamed that the Terminator is real.

      I saw that episode too and he genuinely looked completely out of it, even in terms of his temperament and how he was coming at Klein for putting common questions in front of him, some people are genuinely starting to lose it.

      I also found the whole debate about cyber-security and 'rogue' software so bizarre because dangerous malware isn't a new thing, and it's often dangerous not because it's intelligent but just the opposite, because it's tiny, viral and fast. Which describes everything that kills humanity in far larger numbers than anything complex, big and intelligent

      1. jswelker · 1791071216 · focus · HN ↗

         Wasn't Bill Gates mostly just saying terrorists could use AI to build a bioweapon? That sounds legit to me.

         1. nradov · 1791072195 · focus · HN ↗

            It only sounds legit to people who don't understand biology and haven't done advanced laboratory work. Sort of like Michael Crichton novels: superficially plausible but not grounded in any real science.

            1. jswelker · 1791072713 · focus · HN ↗

               I see no actual argument here.

               1. nradov · 1791074479 · focus · HN ↗

                  You haven't made any argument either, so I suppose we're even.

                  1. hackinthebochs · 1791109039 · focus · HN ↗

                     Instead of trying to win this debate in the narrow sense, why not just make the best argument you can in support of your position? If authority has any value, it is because it gives you specialized knowledge that lets you judge the likelihood of speculative scenarios. If you can't communicate that knowledge and the argument that leads to your conclusion, your expertise just isn't worth much in this context.

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