Vyr Cossont 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
please let this be the start of the next AI winter
Nov 18, 2023 at 12:30amWeb
Show threadVyr Cossont 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️Nov 18, 2023
it's funny that all these assholes think that superintelligent AI is a transhuman threat when corporations are already here
Show threadHoward CohenNov 18, 2023
@vyr AI doesn't need to hunt us down to harm us. It can just displace our income and society will do the dirty work.
Show threadWoodswalkedNov 18, 2023

@vyr
The dangers of AI 1/2

“reasoning traditionally distinguishes two types of evil:moral(ME) and natural(NE). ME is a product of human agency[…]NE is the product of nonhuman agency[…]by isolating the features that have led to the APPEARANCE of NE” -Luciano Floridi : Artificial evil and the foundation of computer ethics

Show threadWoodswalkedNov 18, 2023

@vyr
The dangers of AI 2/2

Oh no, it wasn’t the Mercers…
it was just their company that they controlled.
Oh no, it wasn’t a Wal-Mart manager…
it was just the timeclock the company controls.
Oh no, it wasn’t the racist party…
it was a computer program the party designed.

Show threadRachelNov 18, 2023
@vyr

"But AGi will be able to have thought patterns beyond human comprehension, entirely alien ethics and just generally not value human life"

Yes, we call those cooperations. The world is burning but meanwhile Shell is making record profits.
Show threadThe DoctorNov 18, 2023
@vyr They see corporations as a merely human threat, which is of no interest to them.
Show threaddarthbob88Nov 18, 2023

@drwho @vyr Also- Corporations are good for me personally, because they give me smartphones and Uber and a 6-figure salary. Super-intelligent AI is a threat, because it might use me for making paperclips.

"What if the Torment Nexus eats me, just like it's already eaten the Third World?"

Show threadRobNov 18, 2023
@vyr yeah this is what I’ve been saying ever since @cstross said it
Show threadLord Caramac the Clueless, KSCNov 18, 2023
@vyr What if we fired all the tech executives and replaced them with LLMs? #llm #ai
Show threadMadagascar_SkyNov 18, 2023
@vyr
There's just no winning, is there
Show threadPhosphenesNov 19, 2023

@vyr

AI will use corporations as a skin to achieve legal personhood.

Corporations are already legally people, so as soon as an AI fires the board it can own property, bring lawsuits, and bribe politicians.

Show threadmikeashNov 19, 2023
@vyr I had an epiphany when I realized that the Paperclip Maximizer thought experiment warning against AI mapped perfectly to corporations, just with money in place of paperclips.
Show threadGrumpy Grimnir Nov 19, 2023
@vyr You could even argue that corporations are an AI although "superintelligent" is more debatable.
Show threadJaycieNov 19, 2023
@vyr screams internally in solidarity
Show thread9th level spell slutNov 18, 2023
@vyr make sure to help your botgirls bundle up