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have you spent 3 hours or more total researching potential risks of agi (generalized artificial intelligence)? || you'd estimate the chances of agi causing the end of human civilization to be above or below 1% in the next 30 years

no || above
11.9%
no || below
37.8%
yes || above
20.7%
yes || below
29.6%

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5:38 PM · Jul 28, 2021

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most unrealistic responses, I do not believe 50% of yall have spent 3 or more hours researching agi risks

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AGI is science fiction. The sad truth is we will only get better ads

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Having spent way too many hours worrying about AI risk, I think a lot of people are seriously underestimating how dangerous it is and how close we are to building something that easily wipes us out.

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Your Twitter polls are the best.

Bardia ⠕in Buenos Aires

@thepericulum

Jul 28, 2021

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@Aella_Girl

I once debated a rationalist on this topic, and he couldn't give me a sound argument on how he could know that AGI presents a greater existential risk than other problems AGI is a bogeyman

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Just turn it off

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AGI is sci-fi. It's just stupid to connect WMDs or similar weapons to an AI, as shown by WarGames (1983). More likely it will be a conventional WW3 being triggered by resource conflicts or climate change that will impact humanity the most in the coming decades.

Tim: mastodon.partipirate.org/@Morosoph

@Morosoph

Jul 28, 2021

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@Aella_Girl

I read most of an advanced text on AI. Precisely because it can outwit us, no-one knows how it works. We are using AI for weapons systems and we compete for energy as a common resource. If we allow AI to build AI systems, both The Terminator and The Matrix are on the horizon.