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Is AI our biggest threat?

Is AI our biggest threat?

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Originally posted by @shavixmir
The problem with AI is the learning curve.

We learn by trial and error / rationalization, etc.
AI learns by algarithms (or however it’s spelled).

The conclusions are / can be fundamentally different.
And therefore we can not give AI decision making powers.
The learning curve?

I don't think knowledge is the issue, I think it is the wisdom on how to apply knowledge that is the problem. Essentially you are creating an ever expanding intelligence that does not have the ability to empathize with human beings.

So let's say you feed the AI the notion that human beings are destroying the planet via carbon emissions. What will they do to us?

And I'm sure you have seen the movie 2001 with the psychotic AI computer HAL. Of course, HAL is only psychotic to us.

And lastly, there is the issue of mass unemployment. What if AI replaces everyone in their jobs? Not only will you have mass unemployment, you will have a docile and dependent society based on AI.

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Originally posted by @wajoma
Everyone knows there aint no such thing as a free lunch.

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Yes EVERYONE does.

So why do you keep posting this redundant piece of "information"?
You think you are smart or something?

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Originally posted by @wolfgang59
Yes EVERYONE does.

So why do you keep posting this redundant piece of "information"?
You think you are smart or something?
Because you keep posting fairie tales about free health care.

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Originally posted by @whodey
And lastly, there is the issue of mass unemployment. What if AI replaces everyone in their jobs?
The spinning jenny.
Arkwright's mule
Steam power

All of those were criticised for causing mass unemployment.




You want to go back to waeving by hand?

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Originally posted by @wajoma
Because you keep posting fairie tales about free health care.
And what would they be?

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Originally posted by @wolfgang59
The spinning jenny.
Arkwright's mule
Steam power

All of those were criticised for causing mass unemployment.




You want to go back to waeving by hand?
How about the exploitation and subsequent dependence upon fossil fuels?

Care to undo that intricate web?

What about the creation of WMD's?

For the sake of argument, let's say that the creation of AI is "bad".

You then read this:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/10/13/china-has-now-eclipsed-us-in-ai-research/?noredirect=on

So if China is well ahead of the US in AI, would it seem reasonable to pursue it even though you knew it was bad, just to keep up with your adversary?

It is akin to the arms race.

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Originally posted by @wajoma
Because you keep posting fairie tales about free health care.
What about me eating what grows in my garden for lunch.

At this moment: tomatoes, pears, apples, beans (God only knows what sort... well, my wife does, but she ain’t talkin’ ), cucumbers, radishy things, lettuce and what I think are potatoes.

That’s a free lunch, isn’t it?

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Originally posted by @shavixmir
What about me eating what grows in my garden for lunch.

At this moment: tomatoes, pears, apples, beans (God only knows what sort... well, my wife does, but she ain’t talkin’ ), cucumbers, radishy things, lettuce and what I think are potatoes.

That’s a free lunch, isn’t it?
Debate that with the apple tree.

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Originally posted by @shavixmir
What about me eating what grows in my garden for lunch.

At this moment: tomatoes, pears, apples, beans (God only knows what sort... well, my wife does, but she ain’t talkin’ ), cucumbers, radishy things, lettuce and what I think are potatoes.

That’s a free lunch, isn’t it?
"There ain't no such thing as a free lunch."

It's a well known saying that's used to show no-one's being fooled by the attempt to sell something as free that you have to pay for anyway. There's a story behind it, google it, basically two guys are out looking for a beer when they see a sign "Free lunch with every beer bought" Wow that's great right, problem is when they pay for the beer it costs 5 times the normal price. It's so well known that people recognise the acronym TANSTAAFL even if it's pronounced as a word. It's more recognisable than LOLWGURANIDJIT

So if you can somehow apply that to your veges, not sure how you're going to work that one. Who is trying to pass your veges off as free even though you have to pay, as is the case with state mandated UHC.

But if you'd like to explore the veges analogy a bit more in relation to UHC. It would go a bit like this. Some guy, let's call him Kaka Notion (You can abreviate that if you like) doesn't like what you're doing with your vege patch. So Kaka Notion sends some goobermint thugs over to bully you into handing over some of your vege, They keep some of the vege for themselves, need to feed the buratcracy right, they give some of them away and when you ask for some back they put you on a waiting list until the vege is rancid and putrid before giving what's left back to you.

BTW given your recent behavior here your attempts at self-deprecating humor are lame, false and empty. Drop it.

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Originally posted by @wajoma
"There ain't no such thing as a free lunch."

It's a well known saying that's used to show no-one's being fooled by the attempt to sell something as free that you have to pay for anyway. There's a story behind it, google it, basically two guys are out looking for a beer when they see a sign "Free lunch with every beer bought" Wow that's great right, pro ...[text shortened]... ecent behavior here your attempts at self-deprecating humor are lame, false and empty. Drop it.
What the hell is wrong with you?

Nobody does full retard, and yet you manage it.

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Originally posted by @whodey
https://www.theblaze.com/news/2018/09/09/incoming-president-of-british-science-association-claims-ai-bigger-threat-than-terrorism

According to this article, the biggest threat to mankind is not something like global warming, not even Trump.

No, the biggest threat is artificial intelligence.
I'm sure the fear mongering was prevalent when the wheel was invented.
That carried with it all the risks.
And the fears were founded.
The wheel played an integral role in almost every war humans engaged in.

Today, we have AI, with all its risks of "terminator" scenarios.
But it is a measure of progress (synonymous with progressive).

And that is the fear that some people carry with them.
Fear of progressive thought.
And religion falls further and further behind.
(Just thought I'd toss that in) 😛

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Originally posted by @wajoma
"There ain't no such thing as a free lunch."

It's a well known saying that's used to show no-one's being fooled by the attempt to sell something as free that you have to pay for anyway. There's a story behind it, google it, basically two guys are out looking for a beer when they see a sign "Free lunch with every beer bought" Wow that's great right, pro ...[text shortened]... ecent behavior here your attempts at self-deprecating humor are lame, false and empty. Drop it.
You spent considerable time putting this together, didn't you ? 😆

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Originally posted by @mghrn55
I'm sure the fear mongering was prevalent when the wheel was invented.
That carried with it all the risks.
And the fears were founded.
The wheel played an integral role in almost every war humans engaged in.

Today, we have AI, with all its risks of "terminator" scenarios.
But it is a measure of progress (synonymous with progressive).

And that is t ...[text shortened]... ve thought.
And religion falls further and further behind.
(Just thought I'd toss that in) 😛
For the record, you also scoff at the fear mongering regarding global warming and WMD's?

Alrighty then!

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Originally posted by @whodey
For the record, you also scoff at the fear mongering regarding global warming and WMD's?

Alrighty then!
Well. About WMD's there should be cause for concern.
But the science that led to WMD's has also reaped much benefit.

Risk/benefit in almost everything we do as a species.
That was my original point.

As to global warming, I would say we do have an impact.

But we are not the sole cause of climate change.
Typing this post from a location that has been under a thick sheet of ice at least 4 times in the last million years.

I am not skeptical about the science.
I am at times skeptical about the solution.
This is because climate change has become politicized over time.

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Originally posted by @shavixmir in reply to @wajoma
What the hell is wrong with you?

Nobody does full retard, and yet you manage it.
It's a gift.
Yet he doesn't realise his own talent for it.

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