re: How Andrew Yang Could Win The 2020 Democratic Primary

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The fricking AI within our lifetime will be more intelligent than all of humanity almost overnight before we can comprehend it.

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It will have more computational ability, but for it to truly have sentience and agency is a little more far-fetched, IMO.

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So, what you're saying is...he started a conversation?

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I know that most of the people that say that are full of shite, but yes it is valuable that he is starting this conversation with politicians. Most of these politicians roll their eyes at the tech people and don’t take them seriously at all. The fact of the matter is they don’t want to deal with it because they’re largely stupid power hungry pussies. There’s no good scaring the public on something that is inevitable, so let’s talk about something we’ll at worst be mildly inconvenienced by in global warming, and if we’re wrong, so fricking what? This needs to be center staged. If global warming is, can you possibly justify why this shouldn’t be?

Fair enough, but I've read folks just as smart as Musk but without the notoriety that insist that we cannot create in our image what we do not understand in ourselves.

Not Kurzweil. I'll try to find what I'm talking about - it's been a while. More along the lines of people who think it is impossible to create what they are talking about.

The central arguments, from what I recall, is that creating a computer with sentience is impossible, at least deliberately, unless we understand sentience in ourselves - which we certainly do not.

That is not to say that AI cannot perform inhuman calculations and decisions (they already do), but they cannot be programmed to eventually think for themselves in the truest sense.

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The central arguments, from what I recall, is that creating a computer with sentience is impossible, at least deliberately, unless we understand sentience in ourselves - which we certainly do not.

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I’ve heard that argument, I just don’t buy it. I don’t see any reason we could predict something that is exponentially more intelligent than ourselves. I say prepare for the worst and hope for the best.

How does one prepare? My answer, as it has been for 13 years, is to retreat to a chunk of land and take care of myself while having adequate defenses, regardless of the problem. What else is there?

You will let a bot freak your wife. You're an idiot.

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How does one prepare?

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I’m not the one to answer that question. On the Joe Rogan podcast, Elon has basically just accepted his doom at this point.

i'll get back to you bald headed nympho guy. If I may ask, are you a teacher or professor in a educational facility?