Is the unchecked spread of AI the internet's equivalent of Kessler syndrome?
@gvwilson
One person’s Internet #KesslerSyndrome is another person’s #SyntheticChernobyl: https://www.superversive.co/blog/synthetic-chernobyl
My cyberpunk pastime in Midjourney is to imagine thousands of salt-and-thorium mini-reactors powering desalination plants supporting walkable American villages with e-rickshaws. Microsoft is training language models to generate documentation to build nuclear reactors. That is the solarpunk future
have you read this? https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.17493.pdf
The dynamics are not the same and not quite as bad; kessler is exponential on number of satellites, and model collapse is "just superlinear" (looks like n log n from my not-very-close-reading).
Still, yes - we actually understand what's going to happen and it's Going To Suck.