[data_maan]

All these warnings about AI safety are bullshit.

Humanity is perfectly well capable of ruining itself without help from AGI (nuclear proliferation is unsolved and getting worse, climate change will bite soon etc).

If anything AGI could save us by giving us some help in solving these problems. Or perhaps doing the mercy kill to put us out quickly, instead of us suffering a protracted death by a slowly deteriorating environment.

[kortilla]

“There are also other things killing us” is not a justification for making more. Why not just give nuclear weapons to extremists?

[latency-guy2]

Agreed, stop making food, cars, drugs, guns, knives, forks, pens, stairs, bathtubs, rugs, and so on. We are actively being murdered everyday by these things and more, lets stop the extremists from gaining access to these things.

Do not justify, that's illegal from now on.

[kortilla]

Are you literally incapable of seeing the difference between making food and giving nuclear bombs to terrorists?

[latency-guy2]

Yes, seeing as you're killing off the conversation as soon as it doesn't go your way. So why can't everyone else do the same to you.

[data_maan]

They can :) You answer, I answer.

Climate watches. @_@

[data_maan]

Because nuclear weapons definitely would kill us. AGI may also help us.

Since we are not helping ourselves and will soon enough suffer climate doom, we really don't have anything to loose to go for AGI. It's the only rational choice right now, the logic is compelling.

(Climate doom sounds dramatic, I know, but it's a fact if you read the latest IPCC report and the Surround science.)

[shrimp_emoji]

> Because nuclear weapons definitely will kill us

I don't think so. Hurt us, sure.

Kill us?

That's bioweapons. ;) Wait until a Plague, Inc.-tier engineered virus inevitably escapes a BSL4 lab and gg. AI might count in that it might help someone engineer such a virus in their home lab. I hope we have offplanet population centers or posthumans by then.

[data_maan]

Again, no AGI needed for biowepons, malicious actors can do that today already. Perhaps not as easy, perhaps not as fast, but they can do it.

What we have shown time and again though is that what we can't do is solve climate change. For that only AGI may help.

[pixl97]

>we really don't have anything to loose to go for AGI

There is no bottom to worse. I don't want to figure out how low that bottom is as my chemical constituents are being turned into paperclips.

[data_maan]

But you do realize that in 7-12 years [1] those paperclips will be lost in an extreme weather event?...

[1] theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/08/global-warming-must-not-exceed-15c-warns-landmark-un-report