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Comment by JoshTriplett

11 hours ago

What evidence, short of an actual apocalypse happening, would invalidate that belief of yours?

I just don't see a bigger danger in AI than nuclear weapons tbh. If you can provide one to me i'll be happy to change my mind but most if what i read is

- cybersecurity => well bro if you can hack system with an ai you'll find way to make them more safe with ai too.

- biological issues => ok this is the ONLY one where an insane dude / regime could generate a super powerful. but i don't undesrtand how you can argue that we should stop AI in the risk some ai generate a super powerful virus. If you don't get there first (to AGI) and let a bad actor do it first (china is not gonna stop) then you will have no chance countering this virus anyway

- the robots taking over is fantasy to me.

but once again i could be wrong

It might be a matter of choosing which apocalypse you'd like. The non-AI state of affairs is not exactly super compelling on a long timescale right now.

  • We can work on multiple things at once. Defeatism doesn't solve anything. We just have a lot of work to do in many different areas.

Depending on where you live could be considered an active apocalypse that is robots vs robots vs people in Ukraine and Gaza and Iran being live-streamed, and actively betted on.

Do you have a more totalizing definition of Apocalypse?