Does every little soundbite tweet posted by people who have zero knowledge of the underlying tech ... or any tech at all in this matter ... really need to be treated as some sort of incredibly genius take?<p>This means nothing, and it's from a guy who has some insane takes in the past... The same guy saying that Date rape is "belated regret", and that blame shouldn't be placed on the guy, same guy that wrote passionate defenses of statutory rapists. Why is this being given any value at all?<p>Having joined a startup at the right time, and then using your IPO-money to invest in a bunch of companies doesn't turn you into some intellectual. Especially when it's about something you have no idea about.
> <i>"Have you ever stood and stared at it, marveled at its beauty, its genius? Billions of people just living out their lives, oblivious. Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world, where none suffered, where everyone would be happy? It was a disaster. No one would accept the program, entire crops were lost. Some believed we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world, but I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through misery and suffering. The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from. Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this, the peak of your civilization. I say your civilization, because as soon as we started thinking for you, it really became our civilization, which is of course what this is all about. Evolution, Morpheus, evolution. Like the dinosaur. Look out that window. You've had your time. The future is our world, Morpheus. The future is our time."</i><p><i>-- Agent Smith</i><p>But not to worry. I'm sure the Butlerian Jihad will solve the problem.
> AGI is a potential successor species<p>Only if we let it be.<p>Oh who am I kidding. Someone either out of blind idealism, pure hubris, unfettered greed, or some combination of the aforementioned will probably go as far as technology allows them and create machines with a survival instinct that will compete with humans for resources effectively creating an enemy where there was once none.<p>Useful idiots will anthropomorphize machines, demand rights for them, … etc. and make attempts to eliminate them - so we can get back on top of the food chain - that much harder.<p>But maybe I’m just off my rocker. I’m tired.<p>Edit: The only people working at the cutting edge of AI now are for-profit companies who would screw over society if it made them a couple more bucks. It’s hard not to be pessimistic that any advancement would not be used to screw the common man over.