My weakly-held opinion is that slowing AI progress would be good, but probably this is a better take than mine:
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Somewhat ironically, yes. I think actually-existing AI (= social media algorithms) are probably large net harms, so nuking Facebook from orbit would be good. I don’t think “AGI” (which no one can explain) is imminent, but if it somehow happened, it would probably be bad.
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I’m basically AI-accelerationist. Floor the gas, solve actual bad consequences as they come up, ignore incoherent constructs like “AGI” and ill-posed general anxieties like “alignment”
I don’t think AI as it exists is bad. It’s just made existing badness elsewhere unsustainable.
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Sounds just like the social media guys who floored the gas with the delusion that it could cause no harm. Just look around the world to see all the damage they've done.
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I look around and see them being *blamed* for everything by sore old-media losers who did most of the actual damage
I probably should have said “adtech” rather than “social media” although they’re siamese twins. Legacy media deserved to die, but adtech has made the replacement mostly even worse (imo). Much anti-social-media moral panic is misplaced but the web is degrading rapidly afaict
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I view it as a sort of "debts coming due" tech... accumulated socio-cultural debts since ~1971 being suddenly reflected back at us in an unflattering mirror. To the extent adtech-AI is a part of the "mirror", it's relatively simple. The mirror is starting to get creative now.
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