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I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again (ludic.mataroa.blog)

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another obviously correct opinion from Lucidity

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[–] mii@awful.systems 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

This is brilliant and I’m saving it and will post a link to it the next time someone at work asks why we can’t “just use AI to do it” when a ticket gets rejected for being stupid and/or unreasonable.

However:

The first is that we have some sort of intelligence explosion, where AI recursively self-improves itself, and we're all harvested for our constituent atoms […]. It may surprise some readers that I am open to the possibility of this happening, but I have always found the arguments reasonably sound.

Yeah, I gotta admit, I am surprised. Because I have not found a single reasonable argument for this horseshit and the rest of the article (as well as the others I read from their blog) does not read like it’s been written by someone who’d buy into AI foom.

[–] ebu@awful.systems 0 points 4 months ago

data scientists can have little an AI doomerism, as a treat