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[-] 200fifty@awful.systems 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

we simply don't know how the world will look if there are a trillion or a quadrillion superhumanly smart AIs demanding rights

I feel like this scenario depends on a lot of assumptions about the processing speed and energy/resource usage of AIs. A trillion is a big number. Notably there's currently only about 0.8% this number of humans, who are much more energy efficient than AIs.

[-] locallynonlinear@awful.systems 7 points 11 months ago

We simply don't know how the world will look X (anything with a bigger scale)

Yes. So? This has, will, always be the case. Uncertainty is the only certainty.

When these assholes say things, the implication is always that the future world looks like everything you care about being fucked, you existing in an imprisoned state of stasis, so you better give us control here and now.

[-] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 7 points 11 months ago

I do love this compulsion of rationalists to use Big Numbers as if they were sufficient arguments.

[-] Evinceo@awful.systems 5 points 11 months ago

but what if the number was really really big 🥺

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 7 points 11 months ago

Nobody knows and it's impossible for anyone to know so let's all just assume I'm right.

[-] self@awful.systems 4 points 11 months ago

my mind always goes back to the sci-fi classics

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