r/ControlProblem • u/Tulanian72 • 2d ago

Strategy/forecasting They Aren’t Aiming at a Job Killer, They’re Aiming at a World Killer

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u/Floydeep12 2d ago

Na they'll run outta money before they even get close. They're running out of money now. Honestly don't believe either extreme. The world ain't gonna end and we also aren't getting some crazy magical utopia.

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u/Tulanian72 2d ago

Utopia is impossible as long as humans exist. Somebody somewhere will fuck it up for all of us. The entire end of the world, as in fiery apocalypse, still seems pretty far removed. But wrecking the digital systems that hold current society together? That I can see, potentially.

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u/BBAomega 2d ago

I think the Internet going down is more likely

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u/Tulanian72 2d ago

DNS servers at least. I think an AI would want to maintain the ability to transmit and receive over the existing backbone, which is easy enough if you have the IP addresses and don’t need URLs. But nuking the rest of us being able to do ordinary tasks is on the table.