• jali67@lemmy.zip
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    1 month ago

    Do you even have a tech background? How is a machine learning algorithm going to end humanity?

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      1 month ago

      I was a network engineer at one of the biggest backbones on Earth before retiring. Before that, I designed and programmed industrial automation. So, no tech background at all.

      Now that that’s out of the way: a blind squirrel could see that sucking up all the energy and wasting endless fresh water is a bad thing for the environment. The “bigger-than-2008” market crash that’s also coming won’t help.

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      1 month ago

      By feeding people’s collective cynicism, lack of social skills, general paranoia, lack of trust in each other, waning hope for the future, etc.

      Do have a humanities background? All tech people should have one.

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        1 month ago

        I have both actually. There are many, many use cases for AI and again, they were used before people like you even knew it was a concept.

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              1 month ago

              Stats.

              Does anyone else think that the old refrain of letting nerds run the world was actually incredibly misguided because nearly all of them lack the social skills necessary to not be sociopaths?

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                1 month ago

                As a nerd who slowly grasped social skills over decades, while most of my cohort did not - yes, hard agree. Case in point - the AI-zealot posting all over this thread.

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      1 month ago

      Brain rot, job destruction, increased inequality, massive acceleration in global warming, massive decrease in the quality of critical systems, societal and economic collapse…