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I think—and I might be totally wrong here—that being afraid of robots developing self-awareness signals a complete ignorance of both robots and self-awareness.

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Trung Phan

@TrungTPhan

· Jun 25

“Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug."

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shitsock

@yogabagababitch

Jun 27

i personally fear these things. for all the things we simply don’t know, the potential damage and self sustainability of a population of these fuckers could seriously destroy civilization lol.

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@foodofthegods3

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@yogabagababitch

Yeah it’s not out of place at all; but I think so much of the scifi doomerism people project on them reveals a kind of gullibility after you spend some time talking to computers by coding or learning about neural networks haha

1:42 PM · Jun 27, 2022Twitter for iPhone

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Right now I’m much more concerned about what horrors humans—with their tendency for evil and ignorance of nth order effects of their actions entirely unchecked—will come up with to employ these things on…

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yeah i get that and agree. i just feel like with these physical manifestations, an exponentially more complex, sentient, and powerful form of digital intelligence may one day inhabit them. right now the humans will be the ones giving the genocide orders.

雲水

@foodofthegods3

Jun 27

Oh yes that’s undoubtedly possible down the line