Comment on It’s Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word

• ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The computer wouldn’t be telling humans what to do. It would be the one doing things. Imagine a group of chimpanzees that somehow create a human. The human isn’t going to just passively give the chimpanzees directions.

  That’s not a perfect analogy because chimpanzees don’t comprehend language, but if a human with a brain just 3.5 times the size of a chimpanzee’s can do so much more than a chimpanzee, a computer with calculational capability orders of magnitude greater than a human’s could be a god compared to us. (The critical thing is to make it a loving god.)

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  • OpenStars@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Imagine Jesus Christ as a time traveler, going back from a dying planet to just about the dawn of both roads and also safer sea travel than previously, those two connecting what would become the entire modern world.

    Jesus: like, forget all this “religion” crap about what foods to eat & where & when & with who, and like, just be excellent to one another dudes & dudettes

    Everyone since then, especially those who borrow His actual fucking name to label themselves: um… how about “no”?

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