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It's hard not to be when people at those labs talk about the probability of AI killing us all, and if it doesn't do that, then the massive disruption to the labor market that's coming. Combine that with the techno feudalist ideology of leadership.

So yeah, I'm negative against their development of AI along with the general public, and for good reason it would seem.

Also, I don't want super intelligence. I want humans to remain in control. Why are they trying to build something to replace humanity? Why don't we got a vote in this? All 8 billion of us not developing frontier models with the expressed goal of achieving AGI followed closely by ASI.

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We didn't get a say in whether we should bet our entire economy on building out infrastructure for half a dozen guys to get rich from. No say in the way they are backdooring around the hamstrung EPA to install greenhouse gas machines to power these things. I think the pushback makes sense.

It's a pity because as computer scientists this should have been such a fun technological moment for us. What a cool thing to experiment and explore new open doors with. But instead it was immediately the driver of mass job loss, societal upheaval, and a double digit percent chance of ending humanity, espoused by the AI lords themselves.

> Also, I don't want super intelligence.

I do. Quite a lot of people do. And that is because we believe it will lead to a better life for most humans.

Why would you believe that?

I don't think you're anywhere close to a voting majority. Rather quite a small minority of the human population would want such a thing is my guess. It may seem otherwise in your bubble though.

Why do you want to block people who are open to the idea of becoming transhuman/hybrids? Let it play out and see whose society turns out better.

Do that without dragging the rest of us into it then. I will continue to vote to block and advocate against such a thing on a societal level. It should not be thrust upon humanity without our consent.

Why the fuck should your fucking opinion matter to what I or someone else does to themselves and in their private property? Yours is the same logic as the anti abortionists. Its not "society" or "humanity"'s concern what medical treatments a person takes for themselves.

> Why are they trying to build something to replace humanity?

The list of possible reasons is pretty short and mostly not really good for most of us, as far as I see it

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