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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
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(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)
The robots clearly want us dead -- "Delivery Robot Knocked Over Pedestrian, Company Offered ‘Promo Codes’ to Apologize" (404 media) (archive)
And here rationalists warned that AI misalignment would be hidden from us until the "diamonoid bacteria".
If only we had paid attention to the roomba hitting us in the leg. It wasn't adorable, it was a murder attempt!
I literally just saw a xitter post about how the exploding pagers in Lebanon is actually a microcosm of how a 'smarter' entity (the yahood) can attack a 'dumber' entity, much like how AGI will unleash the diamond bacterium to simultaneously kill all of humanity.
Which again, both entities are humans- they have the same intelligence you twats. Same argument people make all the time w.r.t. Spanish v Aztecs where gunpowder somehow made Cortez and company gigabrains compared to the lowly indigenous people (and totally ignoring the contributions of the real super intelligent entity: the small pox virus).
OK new rule you're only allowed to call someone dumb for not finding explosives in their pagers if you had, previously to hearing the news, regularly checked with no specialized tools all electronics you buy for bombs hidden inside of the battery compartment.
AI misalignment leads to spinal misalignment.
This reminded me of that prediction I made w.r.t the "AI Doom" criti-hype (and touched on after SB 1047 popped up) back when OpenAI was gunning (heh) for DoD dollars.
Personally, I suspect that this might provide another case of "AI doom" becoming a double-edged sword for the AI industry. What can be dismissed as a simple error on their products' parts gets potentially a lot more problematic to deal with when a vocal minority is primed to find malice where none exists.