Whenever I hear about “AI dangers” in the media, it’s never about things like automated cars killing pedestrians, drone striking families based on faulty face identification, censoring news based on LLM technology, identifying and arresting the wrong people, and so on.
It’s always “I am afraid or not afraid of the freaking terminator coming to kill me and nuke the world.”
At this point I find these articles pointless to read because it’s always the same.
These tech oligarchs are so completely checked out of the material realm, living in crystal Versailles palaces of the mind.
The guillotines can’t come soon enough.
WHAT IS THE POINT OF HAVING ONE TRILLION HUMANS. LIKE WHAT IS THE ACTUAL NEED. HOW ARE WE GOING TO AQUIRE ONE TRILLION HUMANS. ARE THEY GONNA POP OUT OF THIN AIR. COS LAST I CHECKED HUMAN POPULATION IS GONNA LEVEL OUT AT SOME POINT BETWEEN 10 AND 20 BILLION. ARE YOU GONNA RUN HITLER YOUTH BREEDING CAMPS TO GET THAT MANY PEOPLE
I need you guys to look at this actual, unironic piece of concept art of what Jeff bezos imagines a space colony might look like. It makes Disneyland look like an average European city.
Don't these people enjoy the outdoors. You couldn't pay me enough money to get me to live in a space station or some bubble on Mars. I like walking my dogs in the mountains, riding my bike near bodies of water, walking around the neighborhood early in the morning. Who the fuck thinks living in a cylinder is a good idea?
remembering the time Bezos and William Shatner returned from not-quite-space, Shatner is moved and starts talking about the feelings of seeing the Earth below and Bezos just cuts him off with some empty garbage and shuts him down
What "dangers"? AI art looks atrocious and it's bad for people who make a living from art, but I don't think superinteligent AI from the bazinga movies is going to kill us all or whatever.
one trillion humans could live in huge cylindrical spaces
How, motherfucker? I swear science fiction has fried everyone's brains into thinking they can just engineer some bullshit solution for every single problem in the world, real or imagined.