I don't think he's worried about losing his job. The downside is of the "existential threat" flavor. Now, that's popular term with pols these days. But I do not think that word means what they think it does. It means a threat to existence. Not just being uncomfortable.
Now, I have a very hard time being positive about humanity... and I (at least think I) am human. The djinni won't cackle incoherently and give you time to recognize the thread. I will be invisible. Until the take-down of humanity is inevitable. It's like you kick off some batch job one day to "train my toy," and wake up a few days later looking out of vat, thinking, "WTF?"
Imagine the smartest most efficiently brutal individual ever. Then, just to make it closer to what can happen: then, with that held firmly in mind, pretend that it will appear to you to be a toaster. Right up to the point you realize you're the toaster.
It's not funny. It's possible. Hyperbole here is short of the reality, actually. I want to be well the hell away from any gravity well with the first conscious AI.
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I don't think he's worried about losing his job. The downside is of the "existential threat" flavor. Now, that's popular term with pols these days. But I do not think that word means what they think it does. It means a threat to existence. Not just being uncomfortable. Now, I have a very hard time being positive about humanity... and I (at least think I) am human. The djinni won't cackle incoherently and give you time to recognize the thread. I will be invisible. Until the take-down of humanity is inevitable. It's like you kick off some batch job one day to "train my toy," and wake up a few days later looking out of vat, thinking, "WTF?" Imagine the smartest most efficiently brutal individual ever. Then, just to make it closer to what can happen: then, with that held firmly in mind, pretend that it will appear to you to be a toaster. Right up to the point you realize you're the toaster. It's not funny. It's possible. Hyperbole here is short of the reality, actually. I want to be well the hell away from any gravity well with the first conscious AI.