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Comment by Loquebantur

The weird thing is what people essentially ignore altogether in their discussions.

An "AGI" artificial consciousness is imagined as literally a slave, working tirelessly for free. At the same skill level or higher than any human. Somehow, that entity is supposed not to bother about its status, while per definition being fully aware and understanding of it. Because humans manage not to bother about it either?

With the latest installments, people already have serious difficulties discerning the performance from that of "real" humans. At the same time, they consider the remaining distance to be insurmountably huge.

Proponents talk about inevitability and imagined upsides, yet actually, nobody has given proper thought to estimating probable consequences. A common fallacy of over-generalization is used to suggest, nothing bad will happen "like always".

People let themselves be led by greed instead of in- and foresight.

parent Loquebantur 3 years ago

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