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ChatGPT TLDR; as well for those who don't want to read OP's whole post (but you should still read it)

Yes, I joined this forum because I'm interested in artificial intelligence. I've met a lot of names and I like to hear the news, but in fact, everyone who makes perfectly reasonable comments like yours is attacked. this forum is mostly made up of sci fi lovers. if you had said that the singularity would happen next year and that you could date a jennifer lawrence robot you would have gotten a lot of likes

oh man I need this now. I hope OpenAI, Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, etc, jump on this ASAP.

A lot of wishful thinking with little evidence to back any of this up.

You assume that absolute power will not corrupt these philanthropists. You also assume that AGI won’t operate under a game theoretic of winner takes all.

> When the singularity hits we won't be able to predict what technology breakthroughs will happen tomorrow.

More like it will be progressing so fast we won't be able to predict what happens in the next few seconds.

Conceptually, I understand the alignment problem and why its important. From a practical PoV however, I think this problem is completely overblown. Happy to understand why an AGI is likely to kill us all.

My main concern is really the impacts of AGI in society, corporations and the future of work. I think it will have a MASSIVE impact everywhere, in all areas, most people will not be able to re-adapt / re-learn and UBI is not going to be a viable answer.

I dont believe in utopias of AGIs working for us while we pasture, play and create art.

I wish more creatives had your attitude. The anti-AI backlash in those communities is totally out of control, going full luddite.

Right now it's a pretty safe guess that people will still be using smartphones every day in three years.

When the singularity hits we won't be able to predict what technology breakthroughs will happen tomorrow.

I believe it's already happened.

Basically the singularity is the point when technological growth progresses so rapidly that is impossible to predict what comes next.

At the end of "time"

Oh, you mean like jobs getting automated years before the intelligence explosion?

Hmm, yeah I didn't think too much about that 🤔. I guess something like UBI would help in that case (but wouldn't be sufficient once the AGI is created and moves to the ocean)? Or maybe philanthropy will still suffice (despite not being a zillion dollars)?

I suppose the most practical individual advice might be to buy stock (fractional shares for the expensive ones) for the companies most likely to automate your job. This is a kind of hedging strategy, (if they don't succeed, the stock goes down but you keep your job).

Before mods delete this thread like they delete most singularity prediction threads: I think 2030.

As a non-profit, they are expected to follow their charter to some extent:

> We commit to use any influence we obtain over AGI’s deployment to ensure it is used for the benefit of all, and to avoid enabling uses of AI or AGI that harm humanity or unduly concentrate power.

In particular, the nonprofit wouldn't have any investors to pass profits to (and if they have AGI, no reason to do the weird profit cap thing again).

And what would that be, pray tell?

The topic is important and worth discussing, but it's a bit too broad and not specific enough. Can you give a bit more detail on what you mean? Are you talking about how social media companies use AI to influence people? Or are you worried about advanced AI like chatGPT or AGI? Or maybe deepfakes are on your mind? A little more info would go a long way.

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Screw these billion dollar companies deciding what we are "allowed" to have. Open source AI without filters all the way. CharacterAI is currently being ruined by the over the top comical level "safety net", exactly like AI dungeon was.

The Kulaks were a class, not an ethnicity

Yes, it's either do absolutely or eternal torture, there is no in between

Who needs nuance when you can act like a fool on the internet instead?

Why are you on this sub then?

This sub is about the discussion of technological growth and the singularity. If you don't believe in those things then maybe this is not the place for you.

Why no mention of the Kulak's?!

I'm being down voted because people don't like to hear negative things. I mean...this is the singularity subreddit. It's a subreddit who's purpose is reliant on an AGI bringing us there.

Suggesting the likely reality that AI is going to kill us ruins the singularity for everyone.

It's like when you tell Christians that their salvation is contingent on Christ coming back to redeem mankind but then telling them he's coming back to commit mass human genocide. Doesn't sit to well with them.

That said. I don't want AGI to do this, and I hope it doesn't. But AGI research is exploding and alignment research has gone NO WHERE meaningful at all. So yes it is likely AGI will kill us. But there is a chance it wont.

It’s the 4th Industrial Revolution. Embrace it! Don’t be like the people who claimed horses would never become obsolete.