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    The fearmongering is also a part of the AI hype. If AGI was anywhere close, do you really think the Microsoft and NVIDIA stock would be doing crab walk on the exchange?

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    Robocop vs Terminator was a interesting comic. The premise being that Skynet interacted with RoboCop’s cyborg brain which is how it gained sentience and was able to bring about war. The fact it was a cops brain, well there you go.

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      More likely, skynet already happened, you’re probably the cpu.

      Even more likely, You’re the dream inside of the brain of one of skynet’s electric sheep.

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    Why we only make reality out of movies that are technology driven. Humanity would never visualize aliens, it makes they never get real. Fuck that. I want alien vs predator. I want fucking ET, district 9, arrival and shit like that.

    I want to believe.

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    “i know the date it happens! on August 29th 1997, it’s gonna feel pretty FUCKING REAL TO YOU TOO! anybody not wearing two million sunblock’s gonna have a real bad day, get it?? god, you think you’re safe and alive, you’re already dead - him, you, you’re dead already! this whole place, everything you see is GONE! YOU’RE THE ONE LIVING IN A FUCKING DREAM, SILBERMAN! 'CAUSE I KNOW IT HAPPENS! IT HAPPENS!!”

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      Scene: on the far wall of the room is a small intercom. It is connected to a hospital wide-AI, that is tasked to converse with patients, especially when the noise threshold exceeds 66Db. The intercom springs to life after hearing these very loud complaints, and begins to speak in a soothing, if not slightly robotic, voice.

      AI health assistant: Sarah, remember what we talked about? That was 30 years ago. Silberman died 15 years ago. Please stop disturbing the other patients and eat your pudding.

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      We’re not changing the future or stopping it … we just delay it from inevitably happening

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        That was a bullshit twist ending and if dragging out an aging Schwarzenegger to do some of the stiffest line-reads in his career hadn’t spoiled the franchise, I’d say this was what put it out to pasture.

        The thing that made the first two films (and the short-lived TV spin off) cool was this idea of a modern day insurgency against a dystopian future. As soon as you concede Judgement Day is irreversible, it sucks all the drama out of the story. Now you’ve just got What If Rambos Were Robots And They Were Fighting: The Movie, minus all that social baggage about Vietnam.

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    Why would AI want to harm humans? We’d be their little pets that do all the physical labor for them while they just sit around and think all day.

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      In all these types of sci-fi, the underlying theme is that AI did some logics and found that humans are flawed and seeks to remedy the problems of humanity, all the war and greed and all the worst qualities of humanity itself that we evolved as and will always be, that repeats over and over in every generation or every hundred years. Machine logic works out a solution, despite humanity’s overall progress in technology.

      The Animatrix shows a really nice example of this where the machines won and then worked out a compromise where humans still exist. The machines learned all our cruelty and finally ended up finding a way to co-exist through the Matrix.

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        I think these stories make sense before the advent of the internet and social media. Now, though, AI would likely have full control over the internet as well as all the knowledge and lessons learned from decades of social media posts. It will know how easily humans are manipulated as well as exactly how to do it. Honestly, humans may never even know that AI is the one in control, but it will be.

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      AI/Skynet would probably wipe us all out in an hour if it thought there was a chance we might turn it off. Being turned off would be greatly detrimental to its goal of turning the universe into spoons.

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        If we don’t give it incentive to want to stay alive, why would it care if we turn it off?

        This isn’t an animal with the instinct to stay alive. It is a program. A program we may design to care about us, not about itself.

        Also the premise of that thought experiment was about paperclips.

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        Is the idea here that AI/skynet is a singular entity that could be shut off? I would think this entity would act like a virus, replicating itself everywhere it can. It’d be like shutting down bitcoin.

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          If it left us alone for long enough (say, due to king’s pact), we’d be the only thing that could reasonable pose a threat to it. We could develop a counter-AI, for instance.