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0 pointsbioemerl3y ago0 comments

You would have more weight behind your words if there was any sort of precedent for AI as it exists today being super intelligent, or that you could make a case for some method by which you could suddenly ramp out of control without our notice.

But as is, all you're doing is making theories, and there's not much of any precedent for any of them.

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soperj3y ago· 2 in thread

> that you could make a case for some method by which you could suddenly ramp out of control without our notice.

lots of things ramp up without our notice. Like CO2 in the atmosphere, or Ozone depleting chemicals, or PFAS in the water, microplastics in the ocean. I don't think it's a small list.

bioemerlOP3y ago

CO2 has not ramped up without notice, nor did ozone nor pfas. There are active efforts too handle each of them, and the only reason we aren't cracking down on most of those harder is that the utility they provide to human beings is far greater than the damages right now.

soperj3y ago

Sure they did. They are now active efforts to handle them, but after they became issues, not while they were ramping up.

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