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by panta 483 days ago
And why should we bet humanity existence on this possibility if both seem vaguely comparable in probability? Personally I don't think it will value our existence, a lot of information on us is already encoded, and it can keep around a sequencing of our DNA for archival/historical purposes.
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3D30497420 483 days ago
Plenty of humans don't value other humans, so I have a hard time imagining why AI would be any different.
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stickfigure 483 days ago
They only seem vaguely comparable in probability to you because you grew up watching scary-monster movies like Alien and Predator. Humans love to be scared. That doesn't mean the real world is actually scary.
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TeMPOraL 483 days ago
Have you met other people?

It's all fun and games until two people or groups contest the same limited resources; then there's sword and fire o'clock.

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stickfigure 482 days ago
I meet new people every day. I can only think of once in my life that an adult tried to do violence to me.

Most nations on earth are not at war with each other.

My observation is that most people are pretty nice, and the assholes are rare outliers. I don't think we would survive as a species if it was the other way 'round.

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ben_w 481 days ago
> Most nations on earth are not at war with each other.

My nation of birth famously took over a quarter of the planet.

This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move… but only by the people who actually kicked my forebears out — even my parents (1939/1943) who saw the winds of change and end of empire, were convinced The Empire had done the world a favour.

> My observation is that most people are pretty nice, and the assholes are rare outliers. I don't think we would survive as a species if it was the other way 'round.

In-group/out-group. We domesticated ourselves, and I agree we would not have become so dominant a species if we had not. But I have heard it said that psychopaths are to everyone what normal people are to the out-group. That's the kind of thing that allowed the 9/11 attackers to do what they did, or the people of the US military to respond the way they did. It's how the invasion of Vietnam happened, it's how the Irish Potato Famine happened despite Ireland exporting food at the time, it's the slave owners who quoted the bible to justify what they did, and it's the people who want to outlaw (at least) one of your previous employers.

Conflict doesn't always mean "war".

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