PhillipLlerenas t1_j7r8ipm wrote
Reply to comment by turnip_burrito in I asked Microsoft's 'new Bing' to write me a cover letter for a job. It refused, saying this would be 'unethical' and 'unfair to other applicants.' by TopHatSasquatch
Absolutely.
Not only that but an almost childlike naïveté about the effects of AI on regular people.
Whenever someone mentions the massive unemployment that AI and automation will cause they all just shrug and mumble something something UBI.
As if UBI was just around the corner and not something 99% of members of Congress think it’s a fantasy.
turnip_burrito t1_j7r8suo wrote
Yeah definitely, half the crowd here feels like they are a few steps short of a yard.
Yuli-Ban t1_j7rovf7 wrote
It's one reason why I no longer consider myself a Singularitarian. I'm not at all skeptical about AGI one bit, but hot holy God damn, I've noticed techno religious thinking, blatant anti-humanity, and Rapture-like thinking around these parts.
SalimSaadi t1_j7ukzrw wrote
You are making the same mistake that all secular ideology inevitably falls into. As paradoxical as it sounds, here we should learn more from the big religions: every time a group of fanatics goes crazy, the mainstream imposes a different name on them and splits them from itself; in this way, the madmen become a sect, and the "coherent side" can keep the original name. The problem is that the secular do not love ideas as much as the religious love God, they care more about their own image, they choose to split themselves and create their own ideology with blackjack and hookers rather than stepping firmly and defending the dignity of the projects that they support. Your posts on Future Timeline were a great source of inspiration for me to become a singularitarian many years ago, and to happen to find you on Reddit saying this, giving up the Singularity because you find yourself unable to put up a fight against the retard techno-religious, well... I'm disappointed. Regards.
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