magic9mushroom
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magic9mushroom
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2hr ago
Never heard or heard of it before to my knowledge.
I don't think "instantly kill you" is a prerequisite for "destroys the world". Sure, a hostile AI that goes full Skynet is unlikely to get everyone in the first pass with bioweapons, but if the AI is not destroyed or crippled beyond repair in that chaos then you're just the last light to go out; the cleanup robots will break open your bunker months or years later and there's fuck-all you can do about it. Skynet isn't like a plague or an asteroid impact, because it doesn't naturally end - indeed, if it wins, it gets worse over time as the robots build more robots.
I think a key point here is that most of the scenarios you're thinking of where there's a standard catastrophe are subsets of "AI fizzle", where AI does not hit a perfect 10. If AI is a 10, then either it's [OPPOSED TO LIFE] (and you're dead), it's aligned to someone who'll take all your stuff away/kill you (what use is wealth you cannot retain?), or it's aligned to someone who'll give you utopia (and possibly even resurrect the recently-dead).
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