Y'all see why I can't stand these horrific men going off about the so-called "existential risks of AI" while simultaneously telling us everyone should be replaced by "AI"? One of the best grifts of the 21st century.
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Timnit Gebru (she/her)
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HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
in reply to Timnit Gebru (she/her) • • •#Technofeudalists and the perceived #AI threat incongruence
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I'm surprised that you as an #AI and #TESCREAL expert See a discrepancy in this. For the morbid and haughty minds of the #Longtermists line #Elon, there is no discrepancy, IMHO:
1) At least since Goebbels, fascists offen acuse others of what they have done or are about to do themselves; or they deflect, flood the zone, etc. That on a tactical/communications strategy level.
2) More...
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
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... importantly, there is, in my view, no discrepancy on a strategic (intent) level:
a) #Musk's primary goal is, as you know, to transform #humanity into a #MultiplanetarySpecies. Colonizing the closest possible habitable planet (#Mars, #Terraforming) is indispensable for this lifty aim. That will cost the global economy billions of dollars for many years, that will then be missing for feeding the poor...
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HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
in reply to Timnit Gebru (she/her) • • •Thanks for the clarification.
I agree.
From a Technofeudalist/Longtermist perspective, it makes total sense...
(... as I had just explained in detail in a thread that had cost me 25 min. and that I seem to have just list as the #FUTO keyboard lost my 2nd last entry in the clipboard despite mine having turned on "Clipboard History." 🤬)