Is This All a Doomed Enterprise? - by Matt Reardon
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Thinking in the limit might mean thinking about inevitability
What I’m trying to do with AI is indirect. I want to alert people to the fact they’re coming up to this pivotal moment in history, and help them relate to the gravity of that. I don’t know what strategies and approaches will make sense in the wake of a broader appreciation of our circumstance, but I’m more open to what happens with broad appreciation than I am to what happens without it. In that light, my question about whether we’re all doomed is not the traditional empirical one: “Will AIs displace and make obsolete flesh and blood humans?,” but a bigger picture framing on whether a good…
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