• pinwurm@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    As an accountant, I was like “what does Adjusted Gross Income have to do with anything?”

    I’m somewhat agnostic if we’re living in an simulation. It seems slightly more likely than any religion, but I have no evidence to support it. 🤷

    I don’t think AI will kill us all. All it has to do is kill one person before we turn it off or legislate it’s limitations (like Asimov’s 3 Laws). I think it’s more likely to save us like develop technologies to combat climate change or create medicines.

    Torn on the concept of free will.

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      1 year ago

      All it has to do is kill one person before we turn it off or legislate it’s limitations

      I think that the idea of being able to turn it off is a bit naive. Intelligence is a spectrum and I don’t think humans are anywhere near the far end of it. We severely underestimate how smart a true super intelligence would be. It’s a bit like you hearing your kids plotting a plan to steal the cookie jar thinking they’re going to outsmart you except that compared to an artificial super intelligence an adult is just slightly more intelligent than a child. We’d basically be like ants to it.

      Even if it’s no more intelligent than us it’ll still be much faster. Communicating with humans would be like watching a tree grow. Imagine you having thousands of years time to consider your answer to any question presented to you.