Comment by cdblades
6 days ago
> More capable AI systems make the world better.
Support that.
Now support it while including direct costs and externalities.
6 days ago
> More capable AI systems make the world better.
Support that.
Now support it while including direct costs and externalities.
If the cost and externality is that people are upset about it, I honestly don't care.
No you can start with actual money.
What about money? You can't force me to want (or not want) someone's goods and services. If you're worried about large scale automation and so forth, I'm fine with something like UBI.
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The cost and externality are:
1) Lesser cost: people start to not want each other for anything, and therefore lose income of any kind, and are gradually bred out of existence like with horses and oxen in the 20th century
2) Greater cost: bot swarms separate people and can bring about any sort of effect at scale, with people powerless to stop it — eg destroy reputations, bring about support for wars, take over control, or really anything
How did you jump from AI writing to humans becoming extinct? People find each other plenty interesting. Those who want to start families, work together, etc. can always do so.
As for misuse, you are again catastrophizing. Just because a thing can be misused doesn't mean it will. That's obviously not the goal of AI.
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