Machines don’t need to think for us to fear them, only to operate beyond our immediate grasp of understanding.
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Our greatest gift and curse is we can design systems we do not understand; To touch Heaven for the briefest moment as our scaffold fails us.
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To believe a machine made by humans needs to think in order to cause pain is to believe there needs to be intent for there to be suffering.
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People worried about AI leading to autonomous killing machines need to remember that land mines already exist.
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People worried about volcanoes need to remember that hot stoves exist? Is that not an ignorant and condescending thing to say? How can you compare dumb stationary area denial to something that can hunt and kill you, while being cheaper, faster and perhaps even smarter than you?
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Because one of them exists. Meanwhile, development of the F35 started in 1992, and they are PROBABLY going to go into full production this year. The speed of tech doesn't matter compared to the speed of government. And they will in no circumstances be cheaper than people.
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You can hand any idiot a gun and point them at the enemy with minimal training. If you radicalize them sufficiently, you don't even have to train or arm them, they'll figure it out themselves. And they don't have a 20 minute battery life.
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Don't mistake the cute little slaughterbot video that a few nerds whipped up in a few weeks for the purpose of a small political campaign with actual military research into autonomous weapons. And no, there is no unlimited stockpile of cheap idiots that want to die for your cause
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I don't even know what the first thing you're talking about there is referencing, The whole point of this comment was that we already have all sorts of remorseless killing machines, the dystopian future started several hundred years ago.
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