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chefparsley t1_jea7i2y wrote

Reply to The Only Way to Deal With the Threat From AI? Shut It Down by GorgeousMoron

this guy is seriously advocating for being willing to engage in nuclear war with major global powers over developing advanced AI models, simply because he thinks these models will inevitably kill everyone (not a guarantee despite his claims). A nuclear war would kill billions of people, period. Men, women and children, just like the children he mentions as potential victims of AI. The idea that it could be justified as somehow protecting against hypothetical threats from AI is crazy talk.

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Dyeeguy t1_jea7d0e wrote

Reply to comment by CertainMiddle2382 in How do you guys actually think UBI will work? by MelodiGreig

So the point of UBI is to give a basic income to live, not give people disneyland money

But it would also be great if people had money besides that LMFAO. You trying to paint it as a bad thing is one of the funniest responses I have seen to UBI. People have more money to spend on entertainment = more entertainment is created. They can make Disney planet

You are scared of a future where people are not living paycheck to paycheck, and can spend money on leisure? You think that is not sustainable?

Please dude, you have been brainwashed badly. Society doesn't have to be that way, there is no lack of space or resources on earth :)

instead of trying to maintain the current shit system, we can improve things :)

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__ingeniare__ t1_jea74g3 wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in LAION launches a petition to democratize AI research by establishing an international, publicly funded supercomputing facility equipped with 100,000 state-of-the-art AI accelerators to train open source foundation models. by BananaBus43

Currently, AI research for large models (such as ChatGPT) is expensive since you need large data centers to train and run the model. Therefore, these powerful models are mostly developed by companies that have a profit incentive to not publish their research.

A well known non-profit called LAION has made a petition that proposes a large publicly funded international data center for researchers to use for training open source foundation models ("foundation model" means its a large model used as a base for more specialized models, open source means that they are freely available for everyone to download). It's a bit like how particle accelerators are international and publicly funded for use in particle physics, but instead we have large data centers for AI development.

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Nous_AI t1_jea6plh wrote

Reply to comment by CertainMiddle2382 in Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down by Eliezer Yudkowsky by Darustc4

If we completely disregarded ethics, I believe we would have passed the point of Singularity already. The rate at which we get there is of a little importance. Consciousness is the most powerful force in the universe and I believe we are being reckless, far more reckless than we ever were with nuclear power. You fail to see the ramifications.

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