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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)
The robots clearly want us dead ā āDelivery Robot Knocked Over Pedestrian, Company Offered āPromo Codesā to Apologizeā (404 media) (archive)
And here rationalists warned that AI misalignment would be hidden from us until the ādiamonoid bacteriaā.
I literally just saw a xitter post about how the exploding pagers in Lebanon is actually a microcosm of how a āsmarterā entity (the yahood) can attack a ādumberā entity, much like how AGI will unleash the diamond bacterium to simultaneously kill all of humanity.
Which again, both entities are humans- they have the same intelligence you twats. Same argument people make all the time w.r.t. Spanish v Aztecs where gunpowder somehow made Cortez and company gigabrains compared to the lowly indigenous people (and totally ignoring the contributions of the real super intelligent entity: the small pox virus).
OK new rule youāre only allowed to call someone dumb for not finding explosives in their pagers if you had, previously to hearing the news, regularly checked with no specialized tools all electronics you buy for bombs hidden inside of the battery compartment.
This reminded me of that prediction I made w.r.t the āAI Doomā criti-hype (and touched on after SB 1047 popped up) back when OpenAI was gunning (heh) for DoD dollars.
Personally, I suspect that this might provide another case of āAI doomā becoming a double-edged sword for the AI industry. What can be dismissed as a simple error on their productsā parts gets potentially a lot more problematic to deal with when a vocal minority is primed to find malice where none exists.
AI misalignment leads to spinal misalignment.
If only we had paid attention to the roomba hitting us in the leg. It wasnāt adorable, it was a murder attempt!