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Yuval Harari on Threats to Humanity Posed by A.I (nytimes.com)
2 points by rbanffy on March 28, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


> We should move at whatever speed enables us to get this right.

Formless baby logic

> Language is the operating system of human culture. From language emerges myth and law, gods and money, art and science, friendships and nations and computer code. A.I.’s new mastery of language means it can now hack and manipulate the operating system of civilization

hack and manipulate is rhetoric, bad framing.

> We call upon world leaders to respond to this moment at the level of challenge it presents.

"someone panic like me and make laws i can't describe"

Won't someone, anyone, weep for the lost "culture" of tiktaalik. Mammals were the worst thing to ever happen to Devonian civilization. I welcome the singularity.




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