Primary marketing objective of any #ai company is to prove that there are more people dying without ai

In other words, ai companies are benefitting from people killing each other

Let it sink in

#yudkowsky

‘Before It’s Too Late, Buddy’

This is what happens when you spend two years unmasking a well-funded Silicon Valley “apocalypse cult.”

by @xriskology

"This scenario is eerily similar to what Yudkowsky is advocating: military actions that could cause a genocidal nuclear catastrophe, if necessary to keep the techno-utopian dream alive."

#TESCREAL #Longtermism #EA #EffectiveAltruism #Yudkowsky #AGI #AGIPanic #ExistentialRisk #Bostrom #Häggström #Musk #SiliconValley

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/before-its-too-late-buddy/

A very sobering TED talk...

https://www.ted.com/talks/eliezer_yudkowsky_will_superintelligent_ai_end_the_world

Of course, being a retired English professor, there isn't much I can do about this problem, except spread the word and hope I get more folks aware of the danger.

(My own take on this is I don't think AI is going to "wake up" and decide to kill us all. I think some incredibly powerful clockwork brain will be asked to solve certain problems, decide that certain solutions are the best, regardless of any collateral damage, like the small issue that doing it this way will kill everyone, and mindlessly pursue those goals because it thinks that is what it is supposed to do. But do you know the difference between being killed by an AI that hates you and one that doesn't hate anything? Nothing. You're still dead.)

Yes, as you can tell, I'm having a bright, cheery day today. 😱

#mastodon #computers #ai #artificialintelligence #existential #extinction #yudkowsky

if there were such a thing as a reasonable, principled, sincere, non-#fascist libertarian, Russ Roberts would be the best example I'm aware of.

& now he platforms #Yudkowsky to explain why The Neckbeard God lusts above all things for our destruction in a flood of paperclips https://www.econtalk.org/eliezer-yudkowsky-on-the-dangers-of-ai/ #AI #rationalism #libertarianism #cyberlibertarianism #artificialintelligence #fascism