and b) THIS METHOD DOESN'T SCALE. Nobody gives a shit what is going on in the secret hearts of bigots. We just want them to stop doing bigoted things. There are WAY MORE EFFECTIVE methods of accomplishing that than asking them very nicely, one by one, to stop.
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They are really really into this idea that someday in the future an AI will be built that will become God, essentially, and they call this event the Singularity (it'll be an event that's never happened before and the results are impossible to predict)
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Despite what I just said, they spend a lot of time trying to predict it, and talking like they can control it (even though none of them actually work on designing actual AIs or supercomputers) They take a lot of donations from their fans to have these discussions
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Doesn't anyone with a basis of math literacy realize that this is an extremely unlikely outcome and that diminishing return means it will certainly converge somewhere, maybe higher than humans, but not god-level?

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yes, but that's not these guys (even though the closest they do to productive work would be classed as mathematics)
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Woah, is this was Silicon Valley was about?
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