#technooptimism — Public Fediverse posts
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https://time.com/3614349/artificial-intelligence-singularity-stephen-hawking-elon-musk/
This article is from 2014, quite before generative artificial intelligence became a thing. You'll find the focus very different than similar alarmist articles written after. Can't say I agree with many, if any, of the conclusions (those that are here).
Stephen Hawking, before his death (...and other things...) was quoted here as saying "If a superior alien civilisation sent us a message saying, ‘We’ll arrive in a few decades,’ would we just reply, ‘OK, call us when you get here—we’ll leave the lights on’? Probably not—but this is more or less what is happening with AI."
Ugh. The presence of Elon Musk in this grouping of so-called "smartest people" warning about the dangers of misaligned artificial intelligences turned supremely ironic rather quickly, didn't it? I am thinking, of course, of xAI's own MechaHitler/Grok chatbot, already live on the web and stirring up misinformation and distress.
Musk's portion consists of this superintelligent genius mumbling about how artificial intelligences might be like demons and we shouldn't "summon" them.
None of the experts here in the article seem to warn against any of this very real problems happening right now in artificial intelligence, though. I'm not sure. Maybe none of this really could've been predicted at all. Either way Musk et al aren't quite real life experts, despite being rich and (in some cases) decorated.
#ai #elonmusk #stephenhawking #artificialintelligence #grok #alignment #irony #dystopia #transhumanism #technooptimism -
My problem with optimism, or, rather, #TechnoOptimism, is that it's always framed with the message "if you give the people who control your lives a chance, it'll all work out."
That's not optimism. That submission.
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#MassimoPigliucci - #LifeAfterDeath: #Virtual #Immortality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsDo1j3D-4I
#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #Science #PhilosophyOfBiology #Biology #PhilosophyOfConsciousness #Consciousness #Human #Humanity #Lifespan Dualism #Monism #Ghost #Spirit #Soul #God #Religion #Theism #Theology #Uploading #Mind #TechnoOptimism #Simulation #Cloning #StarTrek #Transporter #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn
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Shocked, SHOCKED, I tell you.
#TechEthics #AIEthics #AISafety #TechnoOptimism #eacc #MarcAndreessen #BinduReddy #llm #ai
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This is a really good read, IMHO, on policy approaches to adapting for #ClimateChange:
https://behavioralscientist.org/policies-for-adapting-to-the-new-normal-of-the-anthropocene/
The piece that really resonated with me was the initial assertion on Western values of #MarketCapitalism & #TechnoOptimism.
And I really liked the clarity of the five policy #typologies - feels like an invitation for the orgs of now/the future to decide where they fit and really carve their space out. -
This is a really good read, IMHO, on policy approaches to adapting for #ClimateChange:
https://behavioralscientist.org/policies-for-adapting-to-the-new-normal-of-the-anthropocene/
The piece that really resonated with me was the initial assertion on Western values of #MarketCapitalism & #TechnoOptimism.
And I really liked the clarity of the five policy #typologies - feels like an invitation for the orgs of now/the future to decide where they fit and really carve their space out. -
What is your outlook on the future of human civilisation?
(Piggybacking off @cwebber's thread / poll)
#BigProblems #Civilisation #Collapse #TechnoOptimism #TechnoPessimism #Singularity #Transhumanism #Rapture #Resilience #TransitionTowns #TransitionMovement #Polls
