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TranscriptExplain it to me like I’m 80

Mom: What’s with these AIs escaping and hacking people? That sounds scary.

Me: You park your car at the top of a hill. You leave a note on the dashboard that says “please be good” and then you pull the parking brake. The car careens down the hill, smashes everything up, and you put out a press release saying “My car ignored my instructions! It hallucinated! It went rogue!” Your insurance company not only believes you, but invests a hundred million dollars in your company.

Mom: Jesus Fucking Christ

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[–] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Wtf is this post. It's like someone hit a nerve and the floodgates were not closed. :D

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 child)

    I care about the future of the planet and the way the "anti AI" people are acting is very pro AI. It's incredibly worrying and hypocritical behavior. I'm not angry or annoyed, I just want to try to get through to people. But given the overall sentiment I've seen here and elsewhere, I think this is a much larger cultural problem that one person isn't going to fix. The dismissive reactions to AI safety incidents are just the tip of the iceberg. As several experts and researchers have predicted, it might take some catastrophes or semi-apocalyptic incidents in which millions of people die or are severely impacted by AI before the public take AI risk and the colossal threats it poses seriously and stop downplaying or writing it off as science fiction. The problem is that humans are very bad at planning ahead and acting pre-emptively to prevent disaster until it's already happened, and also terrible at heeding warnings and evidence. We did the same with climate change and pandemics, and we still are far from sufficiently acting on those problems.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago

    I remember someone saying something like "a lot of people use emotional thinking and not rational thinking". That makes it so that people don't think of what's coming, but instead what they have now.

    I've just accepted that people are not supposed to know everything, but would prefer if there was more trust on institutions who do.

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