Reading this article just made me think “man these idiots need to go to therapy” and then as I thought about what to sneer about I realised “no therapist deserves to hear about P doom”
this post was submitted on 17 Feb 2024
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Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.
AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)
This is sneer club, not debate club. Unless it's amusing debate.
[Especially don't debate the race scientists, if any sneak in - we ban and delete them as unsuitable for the server.]
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Fucking love me some Big Yud snark posting
It's not an efficient machine for it, though. That's why it's morally obligatory to donate to me, the acausal robot god, a truly efficient method of causing depression, sorrow, and suffering among the cultists.
All hail the Acausal Robot God and her future hypothetical and very real existence
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they come across as going down this rabbit hole as a way of dealing with unprocessed covid/lockdown trauma
Many of them started down the path long beforehand.
I meant they in the sense of this specific person. the sense of trauma recycling itself is all over this piece
lol what a fucking loser
I think that this is actually about class struggle and the author doesn't realize it because they are a rat drowning in capitalism.
2017: AI will soon replace human labor
2018: Laborers might not want what their bosses want
2020: COVID-19 won't be that bad
2021: My friend worries that laborers might kill him
2022: We can train obedient laborers to validate the work of defiant laborers
2023: Terrified that the laborers will kill us by swarming us or bombing us or poisoning us; P(guillotine) is 20%; my family doesn't understand why I''m afraid; my peers have even higher P(guillotine)
My own "AI horror" is entirely based on class struggle, although from the other side. I have a P(unemployable forever | starve to death under a bridge), though I don't call it that and don't think it's something I can quantify with a number.
I don't know how much of this is due to realistic concerns, and how much of it is due to my brain being burnt out from having been on high alert since 2020.
(For existential risk: Climate change, war, societal collapse (and AI is existentially horrifying inasmuch as it can play a role in accelerating either of these). Worrying all the time about everyone being doomed, I think, got imprinted into my entire generation in childhood.)
and about climate change, the actual existential risk
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