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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 14:48:23 JST Paul Cantrell

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   • Jeremy Kahn

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   I remember this one making the rounds. The most remarkable thing about it? The date. Unreal.

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     Jeremy Kahn (trochee@dair-community.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 14:48:25 JST Jeremy Kahn

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     "we are already surrounded by machines that demonstrate a complete lack of insight, we just call them corporations."

     I'll stop here, just go read the thing

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     Jeremy Kahn (trochee@dair-community.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 14:48:27 JST Jeremy Kahn

     "… superintelligence is such a poorly defined notion that one could envision it taking almost any form with equal justification: a benevolent genie…, or a mathematician… proving theorems so abstract that humans can’t even understand them. But when Silicon Valley tries to imagine superintelligence, what it comes up with is no-holds-barred capitalism."

     Ted Chiang has been ON IT for years and never misses

     Silicon Valley Is Turning Into Its Own Worst Fear
     https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tedchiang/the-real-danger-to-civilization-isnt-ai-its-runaway