Comment by figassis
13 hours ago
It's a strange thing that as humans, we sleepwalk into every crisis, never agreeing on anything, and then when we're there, we also never agree on the causes. When we ge too the point where we can no longer "engineer" or "science" anything we will spend the next decade arguing that the issue was not really AI, or that if it was, it was inevitable and no one (or everyone) was to blame. Rinse, repeat. Yet we're here, today, looking at the bleak future, and taking yet another step forward.
Do we assume society just self regulates. I think it does, but the cost of letting it self regulate is really really high, with lots of suffering. Is it that we find this acceptable when there is a chance we won't be the first to feel the pain?
People have been warning about AI coming for decades. For better or worse, it's embedded in popular culture, in science fiction books and movies. But that's different from figuring out practically what to do.
It's cultural evolution and it's how markets work, too. You were expecting central planning?
Yes, climate change debate went the same way.
https://i.imgur.com/fk1aI.jpeg :)
We don't all sleep walk into these. Many people shout from the roof tops but the masses are easily manipulated.