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by shrimp_emoji 987 days ago
Have you considered that privacy is doomed to end, eventually? If we can eventually ask an AI to produce a perfect extinction-tier virus genome, open source that, and someone can upload it to a nucleotide synthesizer in their garage, it seems like we either eliminate privacy or die.

It's a far-off (?) and abstract, "in the limit" question, and I'm probably as horrified as you are, but our ancestors would probably be horrified by how their sacred cows are eviscerated on a daily basis by modern societies. :p (Death is a neat "mental refresh" of the human mind in the abstract when viewed that way, allowing it to adapt to new realities.)

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> Have you considered that privacy is doomed to end, eventually?

Yes. All matters of a free society seemingly will be lost. It is not directly AI. I've seen this coming long before as the progression of technological power simply points to that outcome. I don't see a way out of the dystopian trap. AI is just an accelerator that arrived a bit sooner than expected.