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Eric15
Profile Joined September 2021
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Last Edited: 2021-09-20 11:15:18
September 20 2021 04:05 GMT
#1
Is it possible for technology to kill humanity?

As in is it possible for technology such as Artificial Intelligence, FDVR (Full Dive VR), Mind Uploading or Singularity to wipe out humanity where people will go extinct or at the very least cause humanity to abandon the real world for a virtual world?

Not asking whether if technology such as a driverless car has a potential to malfunction and end up killing a person, talking about about humans collectively
MeSaber
Profile Joined December 2009
Sweden1235 Posts
September 20 2021 06:27 GMT
#2
Without technology we are dead for sure, so there is only one route.

Elon brings it up to get regulations which is correct. We have regulations on drones now and it didnt take that long to get. Now you arent allowed to do anything with em without someones approval and AI will be the same. You even need a drivers license for drones lol.

The issue is accidents always have to happen before it becomes noticeable for regulation. Foresighting isnt humans strongest side it seems.
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Jockmcplop
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
United Kingdom9614 Posts
Last Edited: 2021-09-20 06:40:33
September 20 2021 06:39 GMT
#3
On September 20 2021 13:05 Eric15 wrote:
Is it possible for technology to kill humanity?

As in is it possible for technology such as Artificial Intelligence, FDVR (Full Dive VR), Mind Uploading or Singularity to wipe out humanity where people will go extinct or at the very least cause humanity to abandon the real world for a virtual world?

Not asking whether if technology such as a driverless car has a potential to malfunction and end up killing a person, talking about about humans collectively

It very much depends on what decisions are made, but is it possible? Yes
Maybe not full on extinction, I think some humans will always survive in one way or another, but if AI had access to nukes and could launch without human interference, and was designed really stupidly, then yeah.

I think more realistic is a huge, worldwide disaster costing billions or hundreds of millions of lives. A huge solar flare knocking out power or resetting systems, something dodgy happening like the Earth's magnetic field reversal which will apparently happen at some point, all this stuff would turn our tech against us for a time.
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Harris1st
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Germany6900 Posts
September 20 2021 09:28 GMT
#4
Pretty sure we kill ourselves long before technology could kill us
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Jubinell
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
333 Posts
September 20 2021 11:48 GMT
#5
Terminator? Matrix? Resident Evil? COVID-19?? Sure the possibility is real.
AI can develop individual consciousness, and then collective consciousness. Humans knowing this will put checks in place. And somewhere somebody breaks the protocol by accident or bad intent and calamity unfolds.
sestrasobaki
Profile Joined September 2021
6 Posts
September 30 2021 09:55 GMT
#6
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Powerpill
Profile Blog Joined October 2002
United States1692 Posts
September 30 2021 14:36 GMT
#7
Technology will become a physical part of us eventually, probably replacing inferior biological limitations piece by piece. I'd imagine one day possibly the biological aspect of our existence will be completely obsolete. (I'm talking thousands, possibly millions of years. Humanity is still in it's early infancy timewise).
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Tossim111
Profile Joined October 2009
United States246 Posts
September 30 2021 21:09 GMT
#8
I do not think AI works the way science fiction portrays it. AI works as a huge data dump on a HUMAN-perceived right-way and its programmers will not include data that would deviate from it otherwise would be faced with poor results.
{CC}StealthBlue
Profile Blog Joined January 2003
United States41117 Posts
Last Edited: 2021-10-01 12:48:49
October 01 2021 12:47 GMT
#9
As of right now it is impossible for AI to take control of nuclear weapons, at least in the US, as we still use floppy discs which can't be hacked. Nukes on submarines have to be manually launched etc. Now one can argue an AI could hack a satellite to send launch confirmation , eh I guess, but humans would also see such a signal and try and prevent it. And why would an AI, still very vulnerable to be destroyed, give itself away like that?
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Hollow
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
Canada2180 Posts
Last Edited: 2021-10-01 18:58:46
October 01 2021 18:56 GMT
#10
I would flip it around and say, is it possible that technology will not kill humanity? It seems to me to be a matter of when, especially when you consider "technology" broadly and the process of exploiting this entire planet beyond its regenerative limits that we have been engaged in since the industrial revolution and which seems to be unstoppable. The likelihood of some AI-based catastrophe is much lower than the obvious consequences of what we consider to be "normal" human activity over time in a global consumer capitalism system that is, in effect, addicted to growth.
PhilGood2DaY
Profile Joined September 2005
Germany7424 Posts
October 01 2021 22:06 GMT
#11
Ofc it is possible. The harder question to answer is if it is likely. And how likely.

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Archeon
Profile Joined May 2011
3253 Posts
Last Edited: 2021-10-01 22:25:52
October 01 2021 22:22 GMT
#12
On October 01 2021 06:09 Tossim111 wrote:
I do not think AI works the way science fiction portrays it. AI works as a huge data dump on a HUMAN-perceived right-way and its programmers will not include data that would deviate from it otherwise would be faced with poor results.


Yes, but assume there's a deep learning AI with A LOT of power that runs towards a predefined goal like f.e. ordering stuff as quickly as possible. A large scale administration program f.e.. It runs simulations to achieve this goal and every x days updates itself with it's most optimal version.

Now assume the defined goal is that the time of the disordered-state is minimized and let's ignore for now how disordered is defined. One of the tests might end up removing the cause of disorder (f.e. humans) if the program's limitations are poorly defined and simulations would end up favoring an implementation where humans can't cause disorder, since that would reduce the time in the disordered state to one single ordering, which is amazingly effective.

AI doesn't need to be sentient in the way we humans define it to decide that humans are bad for it's goal and introduce steps to remove the them from the equation.
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RandyGoldy
Profile Joined October 2021
1 Post
October 05 2021 09:07 GMT
#13
I wholeheartedly believe that technology is designed to help humanity. Otherwise we wouldn't have created them. The main thing is that the technologies for protection are not created in the image and likeness of a person. Otherwise, we will face a militant consciousness with a thirst for destruction, which we probably will not be able to resist. Anyway, as long as I have Ajax systems at home, I feel calm. In any case, so far this system does not have a real AI.
Slydie
Profile Joined August 2013
1913 Posts
October 05 2021 09:23 GMT
#14
On October 02 2021 07:22 Archeon wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 01 2021 06:09 Tossim111 wrote:
I do not think AI works the way science fiction portrays it. AI works as a huge data dump on a HUMAN-perceived right-way and its programmers will not include data that would deviate from it otherwise would be faced with poor results.


Yes, but assume there's a deep learning AI with A LOT of power that runs towards a predefined goal like f.e. ordering stuff as quickly as possible. A large scale administration program f.e.. It runs simulations to achieve this goal and every x days updates itself with it's most optimal version.

Now assume the defined goal is that the time of the disordered-state is minimized and let's ignore for now how disordered is defined. One of the tests might end up removing the cause of disorder (f.e. humans) if the program's limitations are poorly defined and simulations would end up favoring an implementation where humans can't cause disorder, since that would reduce the time in the disordered state to one single ordering, which is amazingly effective.

AI doesn't need to be sentient in the way we humans define it to decide that humans are bad for it's goal and introduce steps to remove the them from the equation.


This seems like the logic of "I, Robot" (2004) and other scifi movies, but no, I do not thing that is a concern for in the real world.

Currently, I do see a very real danger protecting our own minds against AI algorithms, though. Our online activities are tracked by Google and others, and in some areas, the algorithms know us better than we know ourselves! In politics, we have already seen how it can have very dangerous consequences, and it can be worth bringing up the question if we really have a free will.
Buff the siegetank
Manit0u
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
Poland17247 Posts
Last Edited: 2021-10-05 09:39:28
October 05 2021 09:38 GMT
#15
Personally I wouldn't fear AI that much. The environment is actually rather inimical to the computers and current prognoses slate it to becoming much, much worse in the next 10-15 years - most likely to the point where cell phones won't work due to increase in magnetic radiation, we've been lucky that computer revolution happened at the time when our sun's activity was lowest in centuries but it's about to change.

Biggest problems facing humanity currently are:
- overfishing and deterioration of seas and oceans (this is big seeing how a lot of human population is dependent on them for most if not all of their food)
- inability to deal with technological waste - plastic is forever and there's a lot of it, extremely hard to dispose of and not all of it can be recycled. Also, first generations of solar panels and electric/hubrid car parts are going out of commission and no one really knows what to do with them.
Time is precious. Waste it wisely.
Slydie
Profile Joined August 2013
1913 Posts
October 05 2021 10:47 GMT
#16
On October 05 2021 18:38 Manit0u wrote:
Personally I wouldn't fear AI that much. The environment is actually rather inimical to the computers and current prognoses slate it to becoming much, much worse in the next 10-15 years - most likely to the point where cell phones won't work due to increase in magnetic radiation, we've been lucky that computer revolution happened at the time when our sun's activity was lowest in centuries but it's about to change.

Biggest problems facing humanity currently are:
- overfishing and deterioration of seas and oceans (this is big seeing how a lot of human population is dependent on them for most if not all of their food)
- inability to deal with technological waste - plastic is forever and there's a lot of it, extremely hard to dispose of and not all of it can be recycled. Also, first generations of solar panels and electric/hubrid car parts are going out of commission and no one really knows what to do with them.


Really? I think the jury is still out to judge if mirco-plastic is really that much of a problem.

Something like a new ice-age would be very hard to deal with, but we would manage somehow, even the worst-cases of warming would be nothing in comparison. A super-volcano making a global ash cloud blocking the sun for years would be the worst imo, and we couldn't do anything to stop it. Fortunately those are rare, maybe a WW3 is more likely.
Buff the siegetank
Manit0u
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
Poland17247 Posts
Last Edited: 2021-10-05 13:36:55
October 05 2021 13:32 GMT
#17
On October 05 2021 19:47 Slydie wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 05 2021 18:38 Manit0u wrote:
Personally I wouldn't fear AI that much. The environment is actually rather inimical to the computers and current prognoses slate it to becoming much, much worse in the next 10-15 years - most likely to the point where cell phones won't work due to increase in magnetic radiation, we've been lucky that computer revolution happened at the time when our sun's activity was lowest in centuries but it's about to change.

Biggest problems facing humanity currently are:
- overfishing and deterioration of seas and oceans (this is big seeing how a lot of human population is dependent on them for most if not all of their food)
- inability to deal with technological waste - plastic is forever and there's a lot of it, extremely hard to dispose of and not all of it can be recycled. Also, first generations of solar panels and electric/hubrid car parts are going out of commission and no one really knows what to do with them.


Really? I think the jury is still out to judge if mirco-plastic is really that much of a problem.


It's not about the micro-plastic (that's just a tiny part of the problem) but simply a huge amount of plastic waste that's being accumulated all the time and not being recycled as you can't dispose of it.

Sights like that will become more common:

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Also, just check out Manila's waterways...

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I think that Manila alone is dumping like 50 tonnes of plastic into its water ways and then ocean every single day.

And regarding the micro-plastics too, the majority of the plastic island in the Pacific is made up of fishing gear (nets, buoys, lines), not smaller stuff.
Time is precious. Waste it wisely.
Vivax
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
21971 Posts
October 05 2021 14:34 GMT
#18
Yeah seeing all that plastic is disgusting.
Wonder how long until the ocean is toxic enough to not even be able to bathe in it. Eating fish is already risky and no matter where you dump something, it arrives everywhere at some point.

That there's still small products packaged in plastic in shelves tells you how much politicians mean it when they say go green. As if carbon dioxide were a bigger problem than all this ultimately toxic waste.
DropBear
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Australia4352 Posts
October 05 2021 16:15 GMT
#19
Seeing those pictures is really depressing. How can anyone ever clean all of that up?

I'm definitely afraid of AI.
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Slydie
Profile Joined August 2013
1913 Posts
October 06 2021 09:02 GMT
#20
I agree that those pictures are absolutely disgusting, and keeping plastic away from the oceans is a cause it is very easy to get behind.

I just watched this video explaining what the "plastic islands" really are:


But: the oceans are absolutely enormous, containing 1,37 billion cubic kilometers of water. While plastic waste is certainly one of many environmental problems we cause, I have not yet seen a convincing argument why it is an existential one.
Buff the siegetank
Velr
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Switzerland10691 Posts
Last Edited: 2021-10-06 11:01:50
October 06 2021 11:01 GMT
#21
On October 06 2021 01:15 DropBear wrote:
Seeing those pictures is really depressing. How can anyone ever clean all of that up?

I'm definitely afraid of AI.


The issue is that there seems to be like 0 care about waste.
I visited India, throwing garbage on the street or the next river/whatever is just completly normal. People don't even think about it and the country lacks to interest/money to have enough cleanup crews to remove it daily.

For comparison:
I was in Japan and South Korea. There is barely any litter ever but also only very few trashcans, yet the people seem to actively take care.
In famously clean Switzerland there is actually plenty of litter. It just gets immediatly cleaned up. On Friday the streets in the towncenter where i live are often littered badly but the cleanup crew goes out at ~6-7 in the morning and stuff gets cleaned and washed immediatly.

Imho this is more a cultural than a technological issue.
riotjune
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United States3392 Posts
October 06 2021 11:08 GMT
#22
I just chuck my empty beer bottles into the parking lot. Sometimes they break, sometimes they don't, but I feel like a big boy when they do.
Manit0u
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
Poland17247 Posts
October 14 2021 12:58 GMT
#23


How fun...
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Silvanel
Profile Blog Joined March 2003
Poland4726 Posts
October 14 2021 13:54 GMT
#24
Recently my views of humanity future became very grim. I am now of opinion that social media will be the doom of humanity. As exhibited by covid vaccination problems they are extremly damaging to science and very good at spreading missinformation and fear. Their influence will continue to grow to the point when they inhibit all scientific progress in more chalnaging and difficult to understand areas.
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ETisME
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
12385 Posts
Last Edited: 2021-10-14 17:03:08
October 14 2021 16:58 GMT
#25
On October 14 2021 22:54 Silvanel wrote:
Recently my views of humanity future became very grim. I am now of opinion that social media will be the doom of humanity. As exhibited by covid vaccination problems they are extremly damaging to science and very good at spreading missinformation and fear. Their influence will continue to grow to the point when they inhibit all scientific progress in more chalnaging and difficult to understand areas.

I think this is the problem of social media but I want to also add that this is beyond misinformation.
And you are a good example of what exactly what worries me, that the anti vaxx are largely caused by misinformation/fear.

If we swap the position, the anti vaxx could call pro vaccine ill-informed as well because some side effects like bloodclots were found later on AFTER mass vaccination campaign.

The fact is that even the scientific community, like usual, are not all aligned with the current covid vaccine strategy.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/is-catching-covid-now-better-than-more-vaccine/ar-AANzmui
And
https://www.ft.com/content/af8da7d4-43ea-41d6-90ee-f959b3675cc5

At the end these are complex science and average people lack any relevant knowledge to make a high level decision.

Social media, with its echo chamber effect, is driving people to have strong stance despite most don't even understand fully of what they are talking about.
It spoon feed you with info that you are familiar with, and endlessly drown you with smearing campaign.

I see this issue with the Trump election fraud claim problem as well.
There are framework on how to deal with election fraud claim, use it instead of dismissing it.
Just like thousands claimed they have evidence and they had to go through the legal process, which all (AFAIK) failed to present any to the court.
其疾如风,其徐如林,侵掠如火,不动如山,难知如阴,动如雷震。
Slydie
Profile Joined August 2013
1913 Posts
October 14 2021 17:13 GMT
#26
Just like thousands claimed they have evidence and they had to go through the legal process, which all (AFAIK) failed to present any to the court.


Trump and his cronies certainly presented "evidence" in the courts, but a lot of it was so unsubstantial the judges dismissed it right away, which was then used as "proof" that the claims were true. What is more interesting is how the counter court cases go, and that even Gulliani backed off when actually under oath admitting he had nothing.

Feelings and beliefs is very different from facts, and we very rarely change our minds.
Buff the siegetank
Manit0u
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
Poland17247 Posts
October 14 2021 20:04 GMT
#27
On October 14 2021 22:54 Silvanel wrote:
Recently my views of humanity future became very grim. I am now of opinion that social media will be the doom of humanity. As exhibited by covid vaccination problems they are extremly damaging to science and very good at spreading missinformation and fear. Their influence will continue to grow to the point when they inhibit all scientific progress in more chalnaging and difficult to understand areas.


It's funny that people who designed algorithms for Google, Facebook etc. forbid their own children to use any of those products and have been recorded in the interviews to say that the biggest short-term effect social media will have on society is sparking civil wars everywhere.
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ETisME
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
12385 Posts
October 15 2021 17:52 GMT
#28
On October 15 2021 02:13 Slydie wrote:
Show nested quote +
Just like thousands claimed they have evidence and they had to go through the legal process, which all (AFAIK) failed to present any to the court.


Trump and his cronies certainly presented "evidence" in the courts, but a lot of it was so unsubstantial the judges dismissed it right away, which was then used as "proof" that the claims were true. What is more interesting is how the counter court cases go, and that even Gulliani backed off when actually under oath admitting he had nothing.

Feelings and beliefs is very different from facts, and we very rarely change our minds.

Same idea actually, that goes for you as well.
The problem is that you THINK you know the facts, and I guess you argued against there's ever any cheating.

But in actuality how involved are you to the system? How much do you know the IT side, the manufacturing side, the set up, the rules, the staff, the delivery etc?

Until the opposition going through courts that you can finally get them to admit there's no legitimate evidence and prove that you are right. Up until then you were only relying on fact checkers and authorities, which is pretty much blind faith as well.

Same with the vaccine is safe claim, hardly any of us are involved in the development, the manufacturing and the deployment of all the different vaccines.
Except here the high level scientific community are the ones presenting and debating, while the rest of us relying on our own judgement pretty much.

Even the UN has made several incorrect call on the pandemic nature, and the lab leak theory was suddenly back onto the table.

We all act with blind faith to a certain degree, especially when the truth are sometimes too buried for us to know, and that we experience the world subjectively.
其疾如风,其徐如林,侵掠如火,不动如山,难知如阴,动如雷震。
Slydie
Profile Joined August 2013
1913 Posts
October 15 2021 20:45 GMT
#29
Same idea actually, that goes for you as well.
The problem is that you THINK you know the facts, and I guess you argued against there's ever any cheating.

But in actuality how involved are you to the system? How much do you know the IT side, the manufacturing side, the set up, the rules, the staff, the delivery etc?


No, I disagree. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and "evidence" that is dismissed in over 50 lawsuits is simply not credible. For that to add up, you have to engage in some huge conspiracies involving a ton of judges and officials appointed by republicans.

For vaccines, that they do admit and report rare side effects is very solid evidence that there is no foul play, and the statistics tell a very clear story about vaccine effectiveness. Once again, you need to engage in far fetched conspiracies.

Both of these examples are really about feelings. If you "feel" that Trump was cheated in the election and that vaccines are too dangerous to be used, no logical argument can change your mind.
Buff the siegetank
ETisME
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
12385 Posts
October 16 2021 04:32 GMT
#30
On October 16 2021 05:45 Slydie wrote:
Show nested quote +
Same idea actually, that goes for you as well.
The problem is that you THINK you know the facts, and I guess you argued against there's ever any cheating.

But in actuality how involved are you to the system? How much do you know the IT side, the manufacturing side, the set up, the rules, the staff, the delivery etc?


No, I disagree. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and "evidence" that is dismissed in over 50 lawsuits is simply not credible. For that to add up, you have to engage in some huge conspiracies involving a ton of judges and officials appointed by republicans.

For vaccines, that they do admit and report rare side effects is very solid evidence that there is no foul play, and the statistics tell a very clear story about vaccine effectiveness. Once again, you need to engage in far fetched conspiracies.

Both of these examples are really about feelings. If you "feel" that Trump was cheated in the election and that vaccines are too dangerous to be used, no logical argument can change your mind.

Not that I am taking the stance on any of these issues, I am specifically talking about the problem of dismissal.

Here again exists the same two problems here.

One is that the extraordinary claims and evidence are accepted by not a small amount of the public.
And the second problem, you, like many others, are unlikely to ever knowledgeable enough to dismiss/approve of the evidence.

Not only are anti vaxx are not out right conspiracy believers, like the original poster I quoted, the election fraud claim also stemmed from Democrats claiming Russian helped Trump won.

I remember a time when UN dismissed human transmission, the usefulness of mask, the lab leak theory etc.
I also recall blood clot issued were found only after mass vaccination programs have began.
Or how hunter biden laptop was planted by Russian.

We live in an information imperfect world, we can't escape subjectivity, yet we can only rely on external authorities and experts, and still we argue like we are the experts or that we even should be having a high degree of trust in them
其疾如风,其徐如林,侵掠如火,不动如山,难知如阴,动如雷震。
Slydie
Profile Joined August 2013
1913 Posts
October 16 2021 07:04 GMT
#31
On October 16 2021 13:32 ETisME wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 16 2021 05:45 Slydie wrote:
Same idea actually, that goes for you as well.
The problem is that you THINK you know the facts, and I guess you argued against there's ever any cheating.

But in actuality how involved are you to the system? How much do you know the IT side, the manufacturing side, the set up, the rules, the staff, the delivery etc?


No, I disagree. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and "evidence" that is dismissed in over 50 lawsuits is simply not credible. For that to add up, you have to engage in some huge conspiracies involving a ton of judges and officials appointed by republicans.

For vaccines, that they do admit and report rare side effects is very solid evidence that there is no foul play, and the statistics tell a very clear story about vaccine effectiveness. Once again, you need to engage in far fetched conspiracies.

Both of these examples are really about feelings. If you "feel" that Trump was cheated in the election and that vaccines are too dangerous to be used, no logical argument can change your mind.

Not that I am taking the stance on any of these issues, I am specifically talking about the problem of dismissal.

Here again exists the same two problems here.

One is that the extraordinary claims and evidence are accepted by not a small amount of the public.
And the second problem, you, like many others, are unlikely to ever knowledgeable enough to dismiss/approve of the evidence.

Not only are anti vaxx are not out right conspiracy believers, like the original poster I quoted, the election fraud claim also stemmed from Democrats claiming Russian helped Trump won.

I remember a time when UN dismissed human transmission, the usefulness of mask, the lab leak theory etc.
I also recall blood clot issued were found only after mass vaccination programs have began.
Or how hunter biden laptop was planted by Russian.

We live in an information imperfect world, we can't escape subjectivity, yet we can only rely on external authorities and experts, and still we argue like we are the experts or that we even should be having a high degree of trust in them


Science can and will change what is considered true, semented opinions do not. I just heard an example of anatomy books used my medical students 45 years ago, essentially saying "recent research had shown this is actually much more complicated, but we don't know the details yet so have with this inaccurate simplification". The students would be expected to update their knowledge once it was available.

You don't have to be an expert to consider if a source is reliable or not. When real experts have different opinions and there is no consensus, it gets a lot more complicated.
Buff the siegetank
Starlightsun
Profile Blog Joined June 2016
United States1405 Posts
Last Edited: 2021-10-16 08:12:06
October 16 2021 08:10 GMT
#32
I would think nuclear war or global warming have a far greater likelihood of wiping out humanity than some sentient AI. Seems like vanity to think that we'll create a cyber Frankenstein rather than some dumb fuck launches a nuke and "forces" retaliation in kind etc til we're all dead. But if asking strictly if possible then yeah I guess most anything is.

meadbert
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States681 Posts
October 18 2021 13:40 GMT
#33
On October 16 2021 17:10 Starlightsun wrote:
I would think nuclear war or global warming have a far greater likelihood of wiping out humanity than some sentient AI. Seems like vanity to think that we'll create a cyber Frankenstein rather than some dumb fuck launches a nuke and "forces" retaliation in kind etc til we're all dead. But if asking strictly if possible then yeah I guess most anything is.



It is hard to imagine man made global warming wiping out humanity. We are a tropical species that largely evolved to live along the equator. On top of that because of technology we can survive at temperatures well outside our comfort zone.

The highest predictions I have seen are like 7 degrees. The temperature change would almost be convenient except for the coastal flooding it would cause.


We lack anything close to the number of nukes needed to wipe ourselves out. Perhaps if we had 1000x more nukes in the future this could change, but at the moment it seems that bombing ourselves to death is pretty impossible. Also, in order to literally kill off the species with bombings, something other than our species would need to be control the last bombs and that would probably be an AI so in a sense if you believe we could nuke ourselves to death you really believe that an AI we create may nuke us to death.


Because of the recent experience with Coronavius, I am currently most concerned about some nasty genetically engineered virus.
Manit0u
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
Poland17247 Posts
October 18 2021 14:28 GMT
#34
You underestimate the effect of climate change. Soon there will be mass migrations from the equatorial areas to colder climates as the conditions there will be unlivable for human beings. The land will be unarable and temperatures will be way out of any comfort zone (even today you have temperatures hitting 70C in the sun and 50C in the shade in the middle-east and that's super harsh on people, even cars can't handle it).
Time is precious. Waste it wisely.
meadbert
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States681 Posts
Last Edited: 2021-10-18 14:47:25
October 18 2021 14:46 GMT
#35
On October 18 2021 23:28 Manit0u wrote:
You underestimate the effect of climate change. Soon there will be mass migrations from the equatorial areas to colder climates as the conditions there will be unlivable for human beings. The land will be unarable and temperatures will be way out of any comfort zone (even today you have temperatures hitting 70C in the sun and 50C in the shade in the middle-east and that's super harsh on people, even cars can't handle it).


Source:
https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/WG1AR5_Chapter12_FINAL.pdf


Warming above 4°C by 2081–2100 is unlikely in all RCPs (high confidence) except for RCP8.5, where it is about as likely as not (medium
confidence).


A 4 degree Celsius increase in temperature could cause problems with flooding, but there is no way Earth becomes uninhabitable from it.


xpldngmn
Profile Joined January 2011
Austria264 Posts
October 18 2021 17:47 GMT
#36
Kill all humans? Unless it's some skynet-kinda thing (not just the nukes, some would survive those, also needs the H-Ks), no way. You'll still have "lunatics" that don't want your precious FDVR.
Can technology disrupt / change our civilisation in ways we can't even imagine? I'm sure of that as well.
Non-native speaker, those prepositions are so hard to know.
Manit0u
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
Poland17247 Posts
October 21 2021 13:45 GMT
#37
I think that there are some interesting takes on the AI to be found in sci-fi:



Also, I strongly suggest reading Diaspora by Greg Eagan.
Time is precious. Waste it wisely.
Arghmyliver
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
United States1077 Posts
October 21 2021 18:15 GMT
#38
An irresponsible person would tell you to look up Roko's Basilisk but in general I prefer not to mention it.
Now witness their attempts to fly from tree to tree. Notice they do not so much fly as plummet.
Jockmcplop
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
United Kingdom9614 Posts
October 21 2021 18:50 GMT
#39
On October 22 2021 03:15 Arghmyliver wrote:
An irresponsible person would tell you to look up Roko's Basilisk but in general I prefer not to mention it.

Too many assumptions in roko's basilisk.
It caused a nice amount of internet drama though.
RIP Meatloaf <3
Slydie
Profile Joined August 2013
1913 Posts
October 21 2021 20:10 GMT
#40
On October 21 2021 22:45 Manit0u wrote:
I think that there are some interesting takes on the AI to be found in sci-fi:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sPw9dZ_nQg

Also, I strongly suggest reading Diaspora by Greg Eagan.


I think that is a valid point! The danger is probably less about malfunctioning AI and more about what humans with bad intentions can do when in charge.

The Earth has been ice free and up to 8 degrees warmer than today. Although the biosphere certainly changed, it is possible to argue that life in general flourished.
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