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by solenoid0937 32 days ago
You can't say a technology isn't improving life for humans, what, just 4 years into the introduction of the technology? That is not even the blink of an eye.

Does literally no one look at things from a historical perspective? The history of automation is right there on the Internet, for you to peruse at will.
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danaris 32 days ago
If a technology is improving life for a handful of people (that you happen to be part of)

but making it measurably worse for vastly more people

can you really say that that technology is "improving life for humans"?

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munksbeer 32 days ago
> but making it measurably worse for vastly more people

It isn't.

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arvid-lind 32 days ago
What makes you so confident that it is improving life for humans? Are you seeing any specific signs yet?
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solenoid0937 32 days ago
If we only waited 4 years for any given technology to improve the human condition before abandoning it, we'd be in the Stone Age.
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maplethorpe 32 days ago
Theoretically, if a technology came along that destroyed the human condition in a four year time frame, your "let's wait longer than four years and see" philosophy would kill us all.
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solenoid0937 32 days ago
Okay, but you have no basis to assume a technology that automates labor will do that given your priors (previous technologies that have automated general labor en masse). In other words, the FUD is not based in anything, whereas the optimism most certainly is.
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maplethorpe 32 days ago
I'm not trying to argue whether AI is good or bad. I'm only pointing out the flaw in your philosophy.

Like, there will one day be a technology invented that could indeed wipe us all out in 5 years. On a long enough timeline, it's a certainty that someone will come up with such a thing. And when it comes, there will be people such as yourself saying "no technology has ever wiped us out before, therefore this one won't either". And then it will wipe us out, and there will be no one left to say "well I guess this time was the exception".

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solenoid0937 31 days ago
No, you don't seem to be reading my words because you have a preconceived notion of what I'm saying.

I'm not saying all technology is good. I never said that.

I'm saying automating labor is good. All of my arguments have been specifically scoped to the automation of labor.

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