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monsieurpooh t1_jefdhy5 wrote

It seems pretty niche. Like you mentioned only 2 openings at your company. The company I work at is pretty huge and I don't think that kind of job even makes up 1/10,000 of our jobs, if at all, because all these tasks are distributed across other people on a rotation, or just part of another job.

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vivehelpme t1_jefdfv0 wrote

We can't align a hammer to not hit your fingers, or a human to not become a criminal. Thinking a dynamic multi-contexual system will somehow become a paragon saint is ridiculous.

And no matter how many alignment training sets you have it all goes out the window as soon as someone needs a military AI to kill people and ignore those sets.

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SmoothPlastic9 t1_jefd25z wrote

The smartest people r afraid of AI for a reason. the chance of it backfiring on its own+used by terrorist to caused huge damage on a scale never seen before is enough to make it the second biggest threat to us

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agonypants t1_jefcxn4 wrote

The impression I have is that FLI wants a neutered version of AGI that isn't disruptive to the status quo. They want an AGI that won't make people uncomfortable, that preserves our awful capitalist structures. In other words, they seem to want to avoid an AI that doesn't benefit people too broadly or too quickly. The whole point of AGI in my mind is that it can completely displace the poisonous economic systems that we've been propping up for the past two hundred odd years. Furthermore, AGI can tremendously accelerate the pace of technological progress - again, benefitting humanity broadly and sooner rather than later.

I will always prefer fast, broadly beneficial expansion of new technology. Nobody "paused" the polio vaccine for six months - and for good fucking reason. And yes, I see our current political and economic crises as equally as urgent as polio was.

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JIGGLE_FIST t1_jefci0x wrote

...except it hasn't.

That's the point.

In fact, the millennial generation is slated to be the first American generation to die with less wealth than our parents. And GenZ is predicted to be the second.

You are asking us to ignore reality and our own experiences.

> Its a a sea rise that will lift everyone.

Folksy nonsense when there is literal data proving the opposite.

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Qumeric t1_jefcf5k wrote

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