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> But Terminator failed on a basic premise: Skynet becoming self-aware.

A strange claim. Why do you think that?

> The future seems more like …

Oh, so Terminator failed because it didn’t match a different fictional speculation about the future?

We are in "the future" relative to both works. The current intelligence threatening our planet is an unconscious token predictor, much more like the hostile non-entity in Blindsight (which even speaks to humans via token prediction) than the mechanical persons in Terminator 2.

Near as I can tell, the LLMs aren’t the threat. Just greedy morons with too much power, same as usual.

Good point. If only the evil we must fight was as simple as Skynet. Reality is much sadder since people are hurting people.

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