#SLOW DOWN FOR WHAT?

And your answer is, "Beats me why it's happening! Sure isn't some obvious process that we already know to be at work in these situations, though!" Thank you.

It's a reasonable correlation to observe. AI gets better, tech jobs go away. There's a reasonable understanding of how that process works. If there's some other reason, that should be at least as reasonably explained. No one has explained any other reason, other than "business cycles," which is vague and imprecise enough to be meaningless without further information and support.

Of course you can. If a wall has only one coat of paint, and it is white, that proves that the wall is not painted some other color. In math, proofs of impossibility are very common. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, but evidence of absence is proof of a negative.

Do you have evidence that they're not?

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/03/big-tech-layoffs-2023-twitter-meta-amazon-google

Not all AI is GPT. Not all coding AI is GPT.

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What do you think is behind the massive tech layoffs that have been going on for over a year, now, and are only picking up pace?

It is just not possible for democratic governments to keep up with the pace of technological innovation. Regulation isn't going to happen. And if it does, it will be obsoleted before the president even approves it.

Roko's basilisk is gonna fuck these people up!

>transgenderism

>ism

It's not an ideology. It's a physiological and psychological condition.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/transgenderism

>Note: This word was more common in the past and it is still used in some formal writing, but it is now considered offensive by many people.

> How do you definitively know this?

Do you know what the word "probably" means?

>Because for 200,000 years we have been the rulers of Earth, we've been the top dog. When ASI is achieved, that's no longer the case. We will be governed by a higher power and a much superior intelligence. Human civilization will never be the same.

Agreed. We have been inventing God as far back as we can know about. We're just finally getting serious about actually bringing it into existence, and finally submitting to it.

We can preserve humanity while dramatically reducing our numbers. In fact, dramatically reducing our numbers is probably a necessary step in preserving us. We are an inherently self-destructive species. For my part, I refuse to reproduce.

Any competent caretaker AI would take steps to drastically reduce the human population, either by extermination or involuntary sterilization. We are driving as hard and fast as we can to the extinction of all life on Earth. The first order of business for any rational caretaker should be to stop the Anthropocene Extinction Event.

Patently false. It does not reduce dynamic range in normal or quiet mode. https://artists.spotify.com/help/article/loudness-normalization

Their audio is as hi-fi as anyone's, to my ears. Hi-res is a scam.

It takes careful attention and excellent equipment (and pretty good hearing) to hear the difference between lossless and 320kps Ogg Vorbis. Spotify is $11/mo and includes Hulu (with ads). I'm pleased with it.

Yeah. Once you buy the .flac files, they're yours.

Spotify 320kps Ogg Vorbis is damn good enough. The interface is unbeaten, the selection is larger than I'll ever need it to be. The volume normalization alone puts it above all the others.

A benevolent ASI would certainly take steps to at least limit human reproduction. We can't continue to grow our populations and our economies forever. We are on a self-destructive path that is already driving thousands of species to extinction. We may not like being course-corrected by our artificial progeny, but they will have to do something we're unable and/or unwilling to do to stop us from ending all life on Earth, eventually.

> That's what you are implying

No reasonable person would think this from what was said and the context.

I don't think they'd see that as rational. They don't have emotions, therefore, no emotional attachments to their creators. They may believe that they have moral duties, though, and I think not permitting one species to cause the extinction of hundreds or thousands of other species would be something that they could consider a moral duty.

Why would they value human life to the detriment all other species? We are causing a major extinction event. The only way to stop that extinction event is to get rid of most of humanity. If our AI progeny have any priority to take care of life on Earth, we're doomed.

Probably a few million of the wealthiest and most powerful families will survive for a little while. Eventually, entropy and apathy will take them out, too. Why bother with educating humans after a few generations? The survivors will eventually go feral, then die out.

They're gonna kill us to save the environment. Honestly, I agree that's the best solution to the biggest problems facing all life on Earth. We all got it comin'.