@timnitGebru I would *love* to read their "potential solutions."

@timnitGebru these people are completely disconnected from reality

@timnitGebru well… 🤢

@timnitGebru The Computer is your Friend, Citizen. Please wait here for the arrival of Trouble Shooters.

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“Their land is filled with idols;
they bow down to the work of their hands,
to what their own fingers have made.”

@timnitGebru the book is the singularity is near. Kurzweil.

@timnitGebru "We will lend credence to any goddamn thing to avoid considering actual harms or Actually Regulating Tech" is what I saw before I closed the hell out of that page

@timnitGebru "we can have even more power for ourselves?"

@timnitGebru "Is not the greatness of this deed to great for us?"

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Ray Kurzweil
Real piece of work

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Isaac Asimov wrote a short story in the 50's about a future in which all the scientists focused on building the worlds most powerful computer, and when they finished they asked it, "Is there a God?" and it answered, "Now there is."
In John Brunner's 1968 science fiction novel Stand on Zanzibar there is a powerful computer named Shalmaneezer that is part of popular culture and is often jeered at, but with a tinge of resentment at its influence on government and business.