People were feeling doomtastic about nuclear weapons during the Cold War as well.
Listen to the words of this song written in 1969: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2JcxHX-8Xc
When every man is torn apart
With nightmares and with dreams
Will no one lay the laurel wreath
When silence drowns the screams
Confusion will be my epitaph
As I crawl a cracked and broken path
If we make it, we can all sit back and laugh
But I fear tomorrow I'll be crying
Ultimately, we
have made it, through arms control agreements, working to limit the spread of nuclear weapons, and so forth. We can do the same for AI.
You don't have help. But perhaps you could at least avoid discouraging people unnecessarily?
*EDIT*: There are about 5 replies to this comment making roughly the same point. I'm not sure which to reply to, so I'll just reply here.
I'm not claiming that our execution as a species around nuclear weapons has been flawless. I'm not claiming that we are out of the woods with regard to nukes. I'm just trying to push back against defeatism and fatalism. Some felt a sense of inevitable doom during the Cold War. It's been decades now, and nuclear doom still isn't here! Our situation is dire, but not hopeless.
Listen to the words of this song written in 1969: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2JcxHX-8Xc
Ultimately, we have made it, through arms control agreements, working to limit the spread of nuclear weapons, and so forth. We can do the same for AI.You don't have help. But perhaps you could at least avoid discouraging people unnecessarily?
*EDIT*: There are about 5 replies to this comment making roughly the same point. I'm not sure which to reply to, so I'll just reply here.
I'm not claiming that our execution as a species around nuclear weapons has been flawless. I'm not claiming that we are out of the woods with regard to nukes. I'm just trying to push back against defeatism and fatalism. Some felt a sense of inevitable doom during the Cold War. It's been decades now, and nuclear doom still isn't here! Our situation is dire, but not hopeless.