I almost tweeted this last night, but putting AI on a list of failed predictions seems not-even-wrong to me. blog.samaltman.com/technology-pre
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When people said things like "heaver than air flight is impossible" that was negation of a well-posed, falsifiable proposition.
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So treating anti-Scary-AI positions as equivalent to denying heavier-than-air flight is a category error. You can't negate an ill-posed idea
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The right list on which to put "Scary AI" is a list of failed apocalyptic doomsday cult predictions, not failed tech predictions.
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Read part of Greer's "Apocalypse Not" the other day: good catalog of that type of error, w/ continuity medieval to 2012.
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That's Matt Ridley, Greer is on the other side of such things I believe.He is skeptical of apocalyptic stuff for other reasons
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I read his blog & yes, he doubts progress.
AI doesn't scare him b/c of maintenance expense/complexity.
IMHO book appeals more broadly.
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Yeah, I have that same attitude towards AI. The real risk is we won't be able to keep it bug-free enough to stay functional

