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Feb 28·edited Feb 28Liked by Antonio Melonio

I think the second half of the section "The promise of dystopia" is the most likely. Infrastructure for AI will collapse before it can materialize civilization-transforming attributes. Localized AI wouldn't have enough input to do what even the current generation is doing. Could be helpful in planning as you said, but that assumes power generation remains steady enough to do so, and I have a hard time imagining us generating enough excess power above and beyond whatever is needed just for survival.

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Feb 28Liked by Antonio Melonio

This is the first of your work that I read, and you appear to be taking on some huge topics here. Restacked this and subscribed , thank you.

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Thank you!

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You deserve more comments, A.M.

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I just published an essay highly related to this called Artificial Intelligence and Living Wisdom: https://tmfow.substack.com/p/artificial-intelligence-and-living

Let me know if you find it relevant!

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i meet very smart people all the time

that fail to do the simple math

i am guessing it is because

they are averse to unpleasant answers

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people talk about ai turning evil

and it is an interesting topic

but we already know

the position of CEO filters

for the ten percent of us

that can not model the emotions of others

well enough to make people seem real in the mind

~

sociopaths inside the delusion of the material

demons

are already telling ai

to do their worst to us every day

and once you see it

you can see that we are already pretty deep

into a humanity ending war

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