I forgot that most people are not so surprisingly unafraid of AI because they somehow think it is not dangerous to share the planet with a species that is more intelligent than your own, but because they still cannot imagine that it will happen.
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Preposterous is the right framing. Imagining that future is on par with asking someone from the Middle Ages to predict what we will discover when humans invent an electron microscope.
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I agree, except the difference will be unimaginably greater. I used to use the metaphor of ants trying to understand the world we know, but even that is way too small. We are forced to use very toned down metaphors because this is something we are not equipped to imagine.
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People generally don't have the opportunity to develop a perspective sufficiently disidentified from the idea 'I' and the collective self to think about these things. That's why it is as you put it earth shattering, or to a few, bloody obvious ;-). And then there's factor X.
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