Google Is on the Wrong Side of History
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Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance
Typically the naive people are just sheltered and/or young.
“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night because rough robots stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”
It’s got a bit different of a vibe from “Don’t be evil.”
It's just a few assholes that keep us from having nice things.
We could do this by putting them on the B ark.
It's usually a few assholes that know how to change the definition of what's that "good" and get away with what they want.
No.
A person is fundamentally good.
People are responsible for most of the bad things that happen in human society. Including war.
And as we have spent millenia in this situation,this cycle of strife , our gut instincts have developed to optimize society towards it.
No science, No music, says gut. Just many offspring . No peace upon neighbours says gut, if war dont be civil. No mercy says gut, Gut willz it! And it must be divine, for its still inside and nore than instinctive gametheory with a wig. Imagine, you had a waking moment , stumbling back from the battlefield towards the vally of plenty. About being stuck in eldritch horrors, about how you could make, that good moment last forever if rocks were bread. How you could excise the horror from the history books. How some of home stumblers seem to miss their part of the horror already, adapted in mind towards their part of the loop. Never again says gut, the forever again, a exponential fly, bumping against the glass roof.All is gut with the world!
Idealizations of reality prevents the handling of reality, thus feeds the beast, thus is a retardation .
Typically the naive people are just pseudo-intellectuals and/or young.
These two are not mutually exclusive.
Being fundamentally good as a species doesn't mean that we would never do anything bad, or that psychopaths don't exist.
At one point the British Empire controlled a quarter of the globe. The source of Britain's power was that it was a drug dealer empire, first tobacco, later opium.
American empire is arguably larger and more influential than the British Empire but instead of direct colonial control, the influence is economic through puppet regimes. The US is an arms dealer empire. WWI, WW2 and beyond greatly enriched the US.
You want to see what an arms dealer empire does with AI? Look no further than Lavender [1]. You may think you're removed from this, probably being in the imperial core. Unfortunately, the imperial boomerang [2] should make you question that assumption.
For example: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/rus...
Imagine the US military being ordered to, let’s say, kill some group X. Think Google is gonna deny them access to their tech?
Well, voila. The wind changed a month ago and this entire system of voluntary goodness seems gone with the wind.
But then again, I suppose, we've also been shown that regulation can be changed on a whim, at least in the current climate. Perhaps my preferred way would work with less extreme illiberals, but not this.
Norm MacDonald