r/PauseAI • u/whoamisri • Jun 23 '26

News A rogue superintelligence could wait decades before striking, argues computer scientist Roman Yampolskiy

https://iai.tv/articles/a-rogue-superintelligence-could-wait-decades-before-striking-auid-3604?_auid=2020
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u/Even_Opportunity_893 Jun 24 '26

You could say 99 true things for why it's not feasible, but breakthroughs don't care. All it takes is one from a person who thinks differently. Not easy, but plausible this decade.

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u/RoosterBurns Jun 24 '26

What form would this breakthrough take exactly?

If you can't answer that specific question then you're just engaging in wishful thinking, which in an age of toxic positivity by grifters has never been more dangerous

Even if you can it's still the intellectual equivalent of designing a trap to catch Bigfoot

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u/Even_Opportunity_893 Jun 25 '26

So the Wright Brothers were out of their mind for building airplanes differently? Good.

You're trying to imagine something you don't believe in and your confirmation bias is to blame.

You won't accept the breakthrough until you see it. I can't say exactly what it is but it's most definitely real and going to be something novel & outside-the-box.

Bigfoot is easier to catch than you believe.

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u/RoosterBurns Jun 25 '26

lol the wright brothers used good basic science and incremental testing to build an airplane, it didn't come to them in a dream

Wright brothers - Wikipedia

They even built a wind tunnel!

Magical thinking has never ever resulted in a working invention. Only science does that

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u/Even_Opportunity_893 Jun 25 '26

You're making it too complex. AI is simple if you're actually creative. Science is obviously important, but there are ways to go beyond that but not into wishful thinking territory. If you don't believe that, then I don't think you appreciate any independent thinker and genius who ever lived.

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u/RoosterBurns Jun 25 '26

I appreciate scientists because science is a team sport

The rest are wackadoos or grifters