At the end of the day, even physicists need fantasy stories to make sense of the world.
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It's a religious idea -- an eschatology. Which is why believers get so emotional about it. A religion that happens to be very popular among physicists for some reason...https://twitter.com/sapinker/status/1190706081997176833 …
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To be specific, I would say that the superintelligence apocalypse is to religion what hard sci-fi is to the fantasy genre. Same content and purpose, but with a veneer of rational plausibility that makes it easier for scientific minds to suspend disbelief
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I used to buy into this eschatological dogma, but the more I learned about the more this dogma seemed less and less plausible
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I see a comment like this and the first thought that comes to mind is that he has no understanding of what AI ispic.twitter.com/ZwYGMyE87k
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Meh... do you have proper stats about physicists who are into that? If nope... then hard to say it's popular among them.
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I don’t think this is really right. Getting paperclipped is just a rhetorical stand in for “runaway optimization process that operates on a scale difficult for single humans to reason about (with incentives not necessarily human-aligned) ends up destroying humanity”
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“Super intelligent AI” is one particular choice of “runaway optimization process”, but the argument transfers (and is equally valid) for a corporation or even a country.
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Maybe the physicists are upset over computer scientists receiving much more attention in the 21st century.
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In a way, we're already paperclipped. We turn rivers into water bottles, forests into palm oil, mountains into stone slabs. AI will optimize those processes and make ever more paperclips. I think that's a very real threat.
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