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>That's already been true for years (aside from my neighbors being able to do it at an effective scale), no AI is needed. And AI wouldn't make it easier for my neighbors to develop this sort of machinery.

Scale matters. When your neighbor can just type in the prompt "Destroy as much critical infrastructure as possible", that is as destructive as nukes.

I feel like you're just being lazy and unimaginative. I'm not willing to stake the future of humanity on that.



> When your neighbor can just type in the prompt "Destroy as much critical infrastructure as possible", that is as destructive as nukes.

True. When that's even a remote possibility of being something that could be done, then I may change my opinion.

> I feel like you're just being lazy and unimaginative.

Have I made you angry or something here?

I can imagine all of these sorts of doomsday scenarios right along with you. But, unless there's some sort of indication that they're anything but fantasy, it seems unwise to form opinions about reality on them.


You people really won't believe the leopard is real until it tears out your jugular, will you?

Comments like this are better proof than anything that humans will be trivial to replace.


I don't need a leopard to tear out my jugular to think it's real. I'd settle for just spotting one.




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