You’re not overreacting. Projects enabling AI and ushering in the demise of humanity deserve to die. There’s still hope that people will rise up against the machines, but the window of opportunity is closing.

Some things by nature cause more harm than good. Like nuclear weapons and AI. It doesn’t matter if they have some beneficial uses when any use also has some negative consequences and it’s far more tempting for people to misuse them.

Technology beyond what we can make with our hands from readily available materials is unnatural. That’s why it tends to be far more bad than good and take away our humanity. Humans are finely tuned to live in the natural world, not the technological world. Ignoring that has had devastating consequences and it will only get worse.

The Amish were right

Big difference between organizing a community online and being part of it in real life. Real life communities are the only real communities.

Firefighters have to go into the burning building to get people out

And those natural resources are used for what? Smartphones that addict and cause depression. Flock cameras that watch you and report to Palantir. Data centers that are used for AI propaganda and disinformation campaigns to manipulate our views. Chemicals that poison our crops and end up in our water sources. Modern industry is mostly bad for humanity.

It’s funny that this is posted in “A Boring Dystopia” and “Positive News”. What looks positive with narrow vision is often dystopian when taken to its conclusion.

I’m not complaining about the lack of upvotes, just I don’t see why it’s getting promoted to your front page

Weird. You can see they don’t have that many upvotes. It wasn’t my intention to spam anyone’s feed.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/shoggoth-with-smiley-face-artificial-intelligence

But I don’t see any of my posts on all. The most any of them has right now is 59 points, which is hardly a lot. And when I post them how would I know they are going to be popular and flood people’s feeds? I wasn’t expecting them to be very popular.

There’s lots of communities with the same purpose on different instances. Why shouldn’t I post to all those that apply?

General-purpose LLMs can already beat the very best of human intelligence some of the time (recent examples). So it won’t take very long for a few more breakthroughs to be made which will enable general-purpose AIs (LLMs, other neural networks, or something else entirely) to beat human intelligence most of the time, and then 90% of the time, then 99.9999% of the time. AI is already doing a lot of the coding to make AI and it could discover better alternatives to LLMs just like an LLM discovered a method to prove a mathematical conjecture nobody had been able to prove before.

Edit: I’m not even talking about that big of an extrapolation, as you can see. Although it took a long time just to replicate a small fraction of human intelligence we have clearly been accelerating. It took thousands of years to come up with a slide rule. Then 200 years to invent the direct multiplication mechanical calculator. Then 100 years to invent computers that could run programs. Then about 50 years to have somewhat decent machine translation of human languages. Then about 10 years to have chatbots that are hard to distinguish from humans and image generators which are hard to distinguish from photographs and videos.

Computers that used to take up whole floors and lots of power can now sit in your pocket 100 times over and last several days on a single battery. Resource demand for individual computers goes down as techniques improve. The human body proves that complexity and intelligence don’t require a lot of resources.

Building community is being in bed with a laptop? Humanity is doomed.

If you believe that the human mind is just a product of the brain then obviously it would be possible for a new kind of brain to exist which is more intelligent. Or even if you don’t believe that you can just observe the history of artificial intelligence and extrapolate.

How much of this is a rejection of Schmidt or his personal brand of AI and how much is a rejection of the future this technology is leading us into?

You can never have the good side of a technology without the bad. It’s like black magic and that’s why most technology should not exist.

Whenever you’re ready

Another problem but the AI problem would still happen without it