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Baby Shoggoth Is Listening

12 points by nsoonhui

by mpalmer

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This piece is an organizational mess, and almost nonsensical in places.

    This strange discussion has only a few precedents; it leads, as so many discussions about AI do, toward speculation about hilarious absurdities. Sometimes, these hilarious absurdities—talking computers, hundred-billion-dollar server farms—become reality much sooner than even the speculators imagined. Will the same happen here? I fear it might. Will it be bad? Certainly. Although: It’s just possible that writing for AI might not be quite as bad as “writing for AI” sounds.

Was the person who wrote this thinking at all? (Did a person even write this?) This paragraph manages to say nothing, and with a distinct lack of skill, grace or apparent thought.

by inejge

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Sounds like a slightly less awful variation of Roko's Basilisk: appease the nascent machine intelligence in order to be revived as some kind of simulacrum. It's not much less ridiculous than the original.
As for "many smart people can't be wrong", many smart people believed in alchemy for centuries. Not a convincing argument.