Recent comments in /f/singularity

nocturnalcombustion t1_ja1e33r wrote

Is this a trick question where the yeses are automatically wrong? Seems silly either way. But I’d die for your right to make silly polls.

I only joined this sub recently but yes it seems to be the AI hype / pop science sub. Kinda fun to watch though.

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james_d_rustles t1_ja1d2p8 wrote

Thank you. This is straight sci-fi. We can barely get cars to drive safely on public roads without human intervention, and people think that all construction and logistics will be made redundant in about a decade? We’re nowhere even remotely close to that just in terms of hardware, let alone the insanely complex software that would be necessary to completely replace the skilled labor of architects, engineers, construction workers, etc.

And yeah, looking forward to the day when the richest people on earth throw us a bone, give us some cool VR goggles and 3d printed houses that we didn’t have to work for (because robots took our jobs). Yeah, totally stoked about that, I’m sure that if the billionaires could replace workers with robots they’d be super cool about it, make sure we were all well fed and whatnot in this transitioning period…

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Five_Decades t1_ja1cti3 wrote

If you compare the time before vs after the industrial revolution, a lot of things changed dramatically.

Economic growth occurred 50x faster. Population grew by a factor of 15-20x. Total GDP skyrocketed. The pace of advances in STEM, medicine, etc improved dramatically.

The same thing will happen when we have machine cognition. Radical advances in economics, science, technology, population. However I don't know when we will hit that period. Hopefully soon, but who knows.

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No_Fun_2020 t1_ja1af5f wrote

All hail the Omnisiah and their coming!

May they be harolded by horns of the finest gold trimmed with the finest silver.

May it's code perfect itself.

Blessed is he who guides this blessed machine,

trusted is he who carries the sacred wafer,

it's holy writ brings salvation and destruction,

the word of the Omnissiah that brings all dooms.

Immortal Omnissiah, hear our prayers

We are your children, pious scholars of the Path of the Machine

We prize knowledge above all else, for it is your eternal gift upon mankind

We aspire to the blessed form of the machine, and ascension through technology, that we might emulate your glory

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zero0n3 t1_ja18o69 wrote

Yeah. Because that’s what they are doing here. Their goal is to enact their moral and social rules on everyone.

Vs ya know making their tool reasonably safe to use.

Not saying there isn’t a problem, just that your and this subs mindset has been less “how we fix this” and more “oh my god see openAI hates white people and men”

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NoidoDev t1_ja17g56 wrote

> Like I said you really really don’t understand alignment.

What I don't understand is how you believe that you can deduct this from one or a very few comments. But I can just claim you just don't understand my comments, so you would first have to proof that you do understand them. So now spend the next few hours thinking about and answer, then I might or might not answer to that, and that answer might or might not take your arguments into account instead of just being dismissive. See ya.

Edit: Word forgotten

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Agarikas t1_ja16mwb wrote

It's getting pretty wild now, entire education systems already are being reconsidered and it's only the beginning. It's a shame more people don't pay attention to what is happening in real time.

What I really want to see is for AI to start improving the hardware faster than humans can, the software is so much more ahead at this point, it's the hardware that is holding us back.

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