points by ashkankiani 3 days ago | 0 comments
If you haven't learned anything about the state of asymmetric warfare, an autonomous robot is going to be very expensive and timely to build and will be disabled by a $30 drone with C4 attached to it with sufficiently good skills at dodging. I'm assuming that we're in your supposed fantasy world where robotics has progressed to that point, meaning that the people opposing the robots also have access to much better drone software too, to keep things fair.
[–] meindnoch 3 days ago
[–] ashkankiani 3 days ago
[–] kaffekaka 3 days ago
[–] meindnoch 3 days ago
[–] 233mhz 3 days ago
This is pure sci-fi...
[–] meindnoch 3 days ago
[–] chasd00 3 days ago
this conversation is making my day!
[–] meindnoch 3 days ago
We just call them "virus".
[–] ashkankiani 3 days ago
I feel like I still don't understand your logical endgame.
[–] meindnoch 3 days ago
Most billionaires probably wouldn't. But the whole premise of A(S)I is that all it takes is a single billionaire with access to sufficient compute to do it.
Maybe they wanted to save the planet by culling the human population? Wouldn't be the weirdest thing the "effective altruists" (and their "rationalist" ilk) believed in.
[–] ashkankiani 2 days ago
I guess billionaires are more malignant/misanthropic/sociopathic/narcissistic than most, and so I could see them being a higher risk factor.
I was kind of joking with you before, but tbh we actually are closer aligned on this than I expected. Including how strange the "effective altruists" are. I was expecting you to be talking about a much more far fetched scenario based on the language in the parent comment.