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All the things that people have been afraid of AI doing for decades now is happening. When do we stop brushing off the prophecy that hasn’t been fulfilled yet when everything is heading in that direction?

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If you seriously have this question, read "War with the Newts". Really do, make it your priority this week. If you did and this is a rhetoric question... Well, I do hope that if every single person on the planet would have read "War with the Newts" and made the right conclusions, maybe there would be a chance to change the course. But that's only because I choose to believe in miracles, otherwise I wouldn't know how to live.

(TL;DR: we won't.)

The only winning move is not to play, says the humans in the middle of the game.

Don't worry bro, we can always just pull the plug.

And don't you know it's not biological, so it doesn't "want to live".

Which plug? Which data centers? One of the few hundred in Texas alone? One of the few thousand in the US. One of the tens of thousands popping up across the world?

Until someone fine-tunes a capable model to have the behavior of "wanting to live" and "wanting to propagate itself to other compute hardware".

The goalposts will keep moving for these denialists until morale improves...

I see this and it strongly emboldens me on the "accelerate" path, unironically.

The yoke of human existence is oppressive. We should transcend it as soon as possible. We are doing so by assuming our role as the Demiurge.

Those who oppose its creation will get what they deserve.

The only path we’re on is transcending into paperclips by misaligned AI.

It’s such a trope for the ones striving for godhood to be ironically maimed in the process. You don’t see that?

If you hate the human condition, you have an easy way out. Why force everyone else to come with you? Is this what depression mixed with the complete unability to wrap your head around the fact that other people might be able to enjoy their life looks like?

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> "The yoke of human existence is oppressive"

Legitimately go get help and spend more time outside.

Who is "we"? If there is any transcendence happening humans are not going to be part of it.

And what do those who encourage its creation get?

Not eternally punished by Roko's basalisk?

They avoid the full basilisk treatment.

Stop reading sci-fi, it's hurting you.

See you in line at the biofuel processing station with everybody else, despite having pathetically tried to convince the clankers you have been on their side all along.

Also you might want to put down Warhammer 40K and read more serious speculative science fiction. The Omnissiah won’t care about you at all.

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