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Comment So here's an actual scenario (Score 1) 77

AI automates 20 or 30% of all jobs. This causes a feedback loop. There isn't enough consumer spending and enough tax base anymore to maintain civilization. Police and fire can no longer be funded and things basically collapse. The ultra wealthy take their ball and go home which is to say they take all the money and all the civilizations and they use ai-powered drones to bomb the shit out of anyone who shows up looking for scraps.

Eventually a demagogue comes along and organizes the masses into an army. We have a massive war that makes world War II look like a slap fight.

Sooner or later a bunch of religious lunatics get their hands on nuclear launch codes. The missiles on to maintained but they can be launched and it doesn't matter where they hit there are so many that they can completely fuck up the environment making it uninhabitable for the human race. You could basically set them off in silo and it would still Doom us all they are so powerful and so numerous. We have of course while things were collapsing somehow come up with the money to build more nuclear weapons.

Anyway those firecrackers go off and a bunch of religious lunatics celebrate the Apocalypse because they misread a holy book and we all die. In 300 million years raccoons evolved and take over and do the whole thing again

Comment Re:Coming soon to an orbit near you (Score 1) 51

It's not even hallucinations it's pump and dump it's all just a scam to loot our 401ks.

Go to YouTube and look up Patrick Boyle and SpaceX. The entire thing is a scam. There is no path to profitability except through taking your retirement savings. The whole system is designed to force you to invest in a company that cannot possibly be profitable enough to pay back the investors except for the people at the very top who have been structured to make sure they get out with lots of your money.

Comment Re:Facade (Score 3) 21

The danger is that AI companies (Valley Girls) will force schools to teach with AI. Then Johnny and Sally will lose the ability to think hard, it being too easy to foist the exercise off to some bot. The current situation without AI is also not good. Too few Johnnies and Sallies can stick to a math problem longer than 5 minutes before giving up. Their parents are too "understanding" and they reflect this in their dissing their own math skills along the lines of "I was never good at math".

Composition skills similarly require a structured mind with enough grit to finish a task. Composing can be harder than math because the rules are not as clear cut and require greater nuance and discipline.

Adding AI to this mix will only make the problems worse.

Comment Re:Coming soon to an orbit near you (Score 3, Insightful) 51

Data center satellites will not be happening, same as Mars colonies. Or at least not in the next 50 years or so and by then the human race will be in a fight for survival against climate change and have other priorities.

These two things are just hallucinations of the Space Nazi on drugs, who has no clue how Physics works despite supposedly having a Physics BA. I guess he bought that one and never actually studied the Science.

Comment Re:insanity (Score 3, Interesting) 77

Definitely PsyIOps.

OpenAI and Anthropic will cease to exist very fast when the stupid money dries up. All others that are burning tons of cash, for example Google and Microsoft will be at least in very serious trouble and Nvidia and Oracle and some others will probably be dead as well. and hence they try to inflate what their toy can do to gloss over the worse and worse news as to what it cannot do and what massive risks it comes with. For example, there are still no substantial revenue gains from LLM use anywhere and profitability of the LLM offers can probably not even be reached anymore for the frontier model makers.

Now, AI could actually, by accident, wipe out the human race in some scenarios. Think nuclear launch decision relying on it, for example. But that would still be on the humans that did the abysmally stupid thing, not the AI.

Comment Time to imprison them all (Score 1) 77

If they even begin to believe their own hype, they should all be imprisoned for life as traitors to the human race. And, obviously, their monstrous creation needs to be destroyed and anybody trying to do it again needs to face life in prison.

Now, I firmly belief this is all just more hype they are doing to avoid pretty immediate bankruptcy. But still, people that claim they have tech that could wipe out the human race should not be allowed to just continue their work.

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