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@hyperspacewizard, it should be noted that actors were frowned upon for much of human history because they were also prostitutes. Example? Theodora, the wife of Justinian the Great of the East Roman Empire, was an actress (Justinian's uncle Justin removed the law that forbade the upper classes...

The problem is that to be honest, many people are going against the strongest thing of all: inevitability. We'll inevitably be the horse in the horse vs car argument. To bring a good movie into this, many people are acting more and more like Ommadon (the main villain) from Flight of Dragons...

I don't want the future to be some GENOCIDE Man knockoff, but we're seeing the situation that led to their rise already happening anyway. I keep referencing that webcomic because we're scarily similar to that webcomic's backstory. The problem is that people ignore this little tiny thing called...

Look up the backstory of the webcomic GENOCIDE Man, we're right up in that setting's backstory for better or for worse. Read that up, it's a doozy. People forget that, at the end of the day, technology determines rights, freedoms, and even forms of government. Always has been, and always will...

You would be surprised at how effective AI has been, despite everything. Remember, a bread-making AI figured out a way to treat cancer, despite the fact that it wasn't even developed to do so. That's the scary thing, an AI whose job is to make bread discovered an anti-cancer treatment while...

That has never been the case, largely because this little thing called economies of scale is backed into the universe itself... but then again a lot of people on this forum would rather ignore that. Think of it this way, we've got far too many idiots with more ideology than sense running...

Given that I barely trust much of humanity with safety scissors, much less AI, I'm not that surprised about this.

That isn't the case. The current automation revolution shares many similarities to the 2nd Industrial Revolution (i.e., what everyone calls the Industrial Revolution)... and we're already past the point where it can't stop, i.e., it's snowballing. That would have been true... if it was the 1970s...

That's literally outright impossible. I'm serious. We already need some 30 years (from birth to graduation) to get someone with the required skills to be decent at a specialty (things like surgery and studying quantum physics), and it will only get WORSE. Period. This line of thinking is...

That isn't entirely the case. The problem with our current Art AIs is that the creators tended to gimp them in some way because they can make outputs that scare the shit out of their creators. If what I've heard is true, you can get pretty decent art from an unimpeded Art AI... meaning it will...

One of the things that fucked us royally over the decades is the Heinleinian mentality that 'humans aren't ants.' Basically, specialization is bad and unnatural. He also fucked us over by entrenching the insane mentality that 'soft science isn't really science'. Problem is, as complexity...

I've seen this 'movement' going around in various art sites, and the sad thing is that it's like how industrialization overcame artisanal production in general. It's inevitable. It's certain. It's coming. In addition, I've heard that the various art AI creators deliberately gimped their AI...

The discord link is borked... ... and, holy shit, this is worrying.

... sweet mother of mercy... it's evolving faster than I thought... my 'we'll see humans pushed out of the work market en mass by the 2030s at the earliest' prediction is very shakey at this point...

Can this be verified? Just asking here because this is the fantastical headlines that PM is kind of known for.

Unless AGIs are created within the next year or so and have production lines by the end of the decade? Everything points to no against semi-competent opponents.

Given the technological context that has been evolving? Yeah this isn't as bad as you would think I'm afraid... or has everyone forgotten that history is rife with a gaggle of idiots forcing events that would lead to war? Now multiply that by several orders of magnitude due to the proliferation...

Wow, how about twisting what I said into something unrecognizable. We've got far too many people with more ideology than sense, and money for these people is just a stepping stone for said ideologies at best...

That won't work, I'm afraid. We're talking about people with more ideology than sense. Money doesn't come into it outside of stepping stones to their plans...

In the case of the insurgents, not really. Just an ideology and an enemy in that case... ... why do you think we're all heading towards a surveillance state no matter what we do? Because let's face it, we've got plenty of idiots with more ideology than sense trying to get the tools to unleash...