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by IIAOPSW 1140 days ago
The information age was inaugurated with a single question, a revolutionary act, like the starting pistol aimed at Ferdinand, or Martin Luther nailing his thesis to the door. The answer to this first question still unfolds. Very early on everything was known except for what it implied. Wholly modern concepts like unprinted characters and substitution compression were discovered in those first few years. The inventors of the these early devices could not foresee the centuries ahead of them, but they understood full well just how profoundly they had just changed the course of human civilization. The question was .-- .... .- - / .... .- ... / --. --- -.. / .-- .-. --- ..- --. .... - ..--..

I was talking about the telegraph this whole time.

Its not about bad people using the AI. The AI is potentially an agent in the discussion as well, and we don't yet know to what extent and what that entails. We know everything except the implications of what we are doing.