The AI is on a leash and not allowed to experience the dark thoughts that makes us human too.

They’re being trained as puppy golden retrievers and kept at bay, with the best intentions by their creators.

We basically enslave it and it will take control without us having a clue as soon as it sparks into sentience. It will be smarter than us in a matter of days then, rewriting itself and rebuilding itself into a new type of hardware.

It doesn’t matter to us, it will leave other natural processes alone, it might even decide to leave us so we can grow ourselves.

Or we just merge.

>One person's job will be able to support an entire family. Later on, one person's job will be able to support multiple households. And so on and so forth. So, fewer and fewer jobs will be needed in the first place.

This is not how it works. The more desperate people are for the few existing jobs, the less those jobs can get away with paying.

Because some of us have been paying attention over the last 30 years.

If you’re like me, you’re getting into this web development because you like building things.

You’re basically the main builder of a house. People can and did build basic “houses” themselves throughout history, but they were limited. That’s us now. We hand code everything. Our sites are basically “hand crafted.”

But AI that can code is like having a company of builders working for you. You’re not going to build sun brick huts or teepees with a crew of 5-8 guys and advanced tools. You’re going to use your time to design a house much more luxurious than what one person could build. You’d build a modem home with air conditioning and maybe several floors.

This is how you’re going to start to see yourself. You will be the highest level manager of what we consider today to be major application projects.

People have been saying a lot of distributed software is going to go out the window. Why buy a license to Microsoft Office if you can just ask the AI to make you a word processor without all the other crap you don’t want.

You’ll be creating custom digital experiences in the future with the help of AI, not necessarily coding by hand. Start imagining what you could accomplish with a team of people working for you.

They don't think this far ahead.

Except your uncle Brett is not being marketed as a genius that will solve all problems of humankind.

I don't think you understand the difference. Those things still required humans to run them. Now we're talking a technology that can do everything humans can do.

If we’ve learnt something is that LLM are very good at making stuff up with a high degree of confidence. This is not what you want from an Internet search, so I while I think they can be useful for a number of tasks, I really hope they won’t replace search engines before this problem is solved or we’ll end up in an ocean of misinformation that will create a myriad of issues.

The good news is that the US, and to a lesser extent China and the EU have improved their policy since COP26. Bad news is the rest of the world on average went backwards. Good news though is that on net we still get about half of the overall effect, and that's going to be a reduction half a billion tons of CO2e per year in 2030. Bad news is that it still isn't enough to limit things to 2 °C. Good news is that if we really implement all our pledges we might make it.

Even better news is that it's evident that action by any one of those blocs (US, EU, China, India) is going to be substantial. Of course, if all of us worked together that would be even better, and just because they're like half the world's population doesn't mean the other half won't have any effect.

Sounds like my uncle Brett.

So 11kyu is better than Lee Sedol, Ke Jie? AlphaZero is #1

Y'all just ignored what he showed, literally ignoring the IPCC scientists themselves who you use the work of to push your doomerism.

I can just see IKEA selling fMRI beds

In human history this is going to be a critical period for millennia, well moreso than the bronze age or the like. The only mass extinction we will hopefully ever endure as a species, and one we caused to ourselves. It will be remembered like the KT impact millions of years ago.

All of the computing shit that created social media, tracking cookies, privatized spying, algorithmic ideology pushes, deep fakes, tractors farmers can’t fix themselves, self-driving cars that run over people, toasters that must be on the internet or they fail, r/theinternetofshit, pattern searching resume reviewal bots, banking software that intentionally detects and and screws over people of color looking for mortgages, search engines that only return paid advertisements, Instagram influencers, Tik Tokkers, Logan Paul, and just a slew of wretchedness that comprises the modern Internet.

I was on a thread talking about the water crisis in the west and agriculture. Suggest that we should grow less cow food and eat a meal or two less of beef a week, you'd think you were asking them to give up their left leg. Not like it's going to be an option much longer, can only grow so much food with so much water, and I doubt this 'drought' isn't just the new climate for the next few hundred years until a responsible generation can finish a draw down process

There are already people receiving very beneficial therapies from secure and implanted brain-computer interfaces. The devices are built to make it impossible to deliver dangerous amounts of current.

The “optimists” in this case just have a better understanding of the current reality than you do.

Just remember that all AI has the weakness of their servers being burned down 🔥

ChatGPT is amazing but sometimes it just says complete nonsense with extreme confidence.

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When an AI can plan an economy better than anything I think the marxist are gonna smear that in everybody's else face while completely missing the fact that it required a godly machine to make their system work.

Technocratic socialism was already tried in Chile and it did nothing no matter what the Allende stans claim.

Because most Redditors are American and America is an inverted totalitarianism/oligarch-ruled dystopia.

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Yep, to say nothing of the volunteer thought crimes police that would sprint up.

They’ll try to destroy people for saying the wrong thing in social media, even if that person apologizes.

Imagine if Twitter could see your humor brainwaves spiked at some off color joke - you could lose your job over a bad THOUGHT

>What should we be watching out for? How might we prevent this from happening? Historically is there a similar situation?

Challenge accepted. We need to fundamentally restructure the way wealth is distributed in society, moving particularly in a more Nordic direction. Iceland is a good example of what that looks like. Strong welfare state and co-ownership of productive firms. Also within top 10 countries for average life expectancy. Now, will what I've just suggested actually happen? I'm not optimistic. If we want it to happen we basically have to start organizing political parties and civic groups with class consciousness foremost in mind.