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@marick, so... You're saying...

What does “good” coverage of AI mean to you? I wrote about how the disparate views that very smart people have about existential risk are making it hard to calibrate how to cover advancements in artificial intelligence.

https://www.platformer.news/p/why-im-having-trouble-covering-ai

Why I'm having trouble covering AI

If you believe that the most serious risks from AI are real, should you write about anything else?

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@caseynewton Also, "whatever bad actors do with AI can likely be countered with good actors using AI" is as dumb as argument as when it's used for "bad guys with guns being stopped by god guys with guns." They're both asymmetrical situations, where the first to fire creates damage and gains a significant advantage.
@caseynewton I have an idea: hypothesise a slippery slope towards AI-induced oblivion, with stepping stones that indicate progress down the slope. Allow it to branch for things like Terminator endpoints or Matrix endpoints.
Then, illustrate it and publish it on every article, showing what effect the subject of the article has on progress down the slope. That way, you can cover the trivial improvements, and still consciously think about, and convey, the impact that is happening step-by-step, without resorting to hindsight.
Am I being unreasonable or unscientific to presume that quarry blasts on the San Andreas fault are not a good idea?
Is it at all likely that the 4.5 magnitude earthquake a couple of hours later about 25km away could be related?
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If businesses want to use those business models, the government shouldn't support them with DRM-circumvention restrictions. It's capitalism with government-sanctioned monopolies, which is totally corrupt.
When you hear about the singularity, you think of something that's far away in the future.
Now think of all the media attention on LLMs like ChatGPT and Bard, and all the things being built on top of them, and how that's following on from the image generation stuff that became prominent less than a year ago.
The first signs of the singularity are that we can't even keep up with the progress that's happening, before the next rounds start grabbing our attention.
I feel like we're at the start of the part of the curve where this is becoming noticeable.
Once the curve becomes noticeable, it quickly becomes un-ignorable.
What the kids do nowadays: Play Axel F by Crazy Frog on three phones at once.