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by jimmytucson 1223 days ago
Even with "man", it's a dismal view. If Magnus Carlsen sat next to me at a chess tournament and suggested moves, I would follow his suggestion in every critical position, and probably most others if I wanted to maximize my chances. At that point, it would cease to be me playing the tournament.

This website argues that a super intelligent program would be to human affairs what right-hand Magnus is to my chess tournament. We would cease to be ourselves and become a physical arm for the program.
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franciscop 1223 days ago
Well yes, we stopped long time ago from plowing the earth with our own arms to give pass to animals and then machines, and no one sees an issue there. If I want a picture of X, now I can ask MidJourney to generate it to me for virtually free, something that before I had to either pay an artist or be content without. I (and we) should be happy that robots are capable of doing more work for us so that we have more free time in life.

The only legit worry I see is that when factories took jobs 100-150 years ago, people fought to get much better work conditions, while now it seems most work improvements go to the company profit and little to your everyday person (though, still a lot ends up for your everyday person, as I said with the painting). I believe there might (or might not) have been some regression in the USA in the last 10-20 years in some areas, but in most of Europe quality of life is still climbing dramatically in most areas, and of course most of the world as a whole is way better off than 20 years ago.

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mistermann 1223 days ago
Chess is extremely simple compared to human affairs and causality. We only perceive a small slice of what's going on around us (and much of that is incorrect) so it may seem reasonable that AI can figure it out. And even if it can, I wouldn't expect us to take it's good advice.
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renewiltord 1223 days ago
We are already merely agents acting as part of a larger semi conscious whole. I have as much of a problem building AI as a T-cell in a baby human hates that the human is growing a brain.

The conscious planet builds itself a better mind and far be it from me to stop the agent that I am a sub agent of.

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