BIG SMART AI BAD
So, people tell me they can use AI to do tasks much quicker. I was using AI to read books. Like a lot of texts are very extensive and AI provides a summary of them, and indicates chapters. This makes things relatively easier for me. And I am currently reading If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, a book by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares.
And the argument of AI doomers is like this. If we create a big badass super smart AI, it will grow into a monster we will be unable to control.
The cute Mogwai into the self replicating Gremlin swarm. A parallel life form that will eventually see humanity as a nuisance and remove us like pests. At least this is how I understand it. Basically, their anxiety is about humanity losing control over the AI. Once the AI doesn’t need the human anymore for its growth, it will reshape the world to its image, and humanity has no place in that world.
And I was pondering this idea about analog islands:
There is a lot more to the analog islands that struck me. Initially I thought of the dichotomy of digital and analogue but this also ties to the dichotomy of manual and automated. Unfortunately I am clumsy and so I prefer driving automatic but recently I was vacuuming my room with my Dyson, and in the past I contemplated buying an automatic vacuum. I am sticking to the Dyson until I am old and frail. Dyson makes me move. And really, the question here is how much of your life or production do you wanna delegate to AI and automatons? How much do you wanna spend behind a computer screen?
I hate worrying about things I have no influence over, and if we are to die from AI, then be it. One should care about his immediate surroundings. I am going to look into the history of Luddites. These guys are more relevant than ever. It is not that I would like to remove machines but the spirit of Luddites lives on and sometimes it makes more sense, even for health reason to make humans do things.
