AI satirist Deepfates prompts online discussion questioning why public discourse ignores the potential "catastrophic benefits" of AI
Researcher Gavin Leech cynically suggested death as a benefit.
Some users praised posts emphasizing catastrophic AI risks as timely or optimistic about a superabundant future, while many others reacted with hostility and sarcasm toward advocates seen as biased or needing therapy.
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@deepfates You do, they're called disability, medicare, medicaid and social security. *rimshot*
@deepfates because we never gave you permission to risk human extinction, destroying everything all of us value, for your personal immortality quest or whatever. and if you try to move forward with this anyway, we will stop you.
@deepfates 100% dead serious no one is talking enough about this
@deepfates Wait, I know nothing about this but does HPMOR talk about the negativity bias?
@deepfates yeah like the sweet respite of death
@deepfates this is how we end up with vaccines designed by Kimi 2.6
@deepfates Oh God it looks like it discusses confirmation bias but doesn’t touch on the negativity or pessimistic bias at all. At least that man is consistent in his patently wrong view of “rationality”.
@GWHayduke97 Don't care + didn't ask + your premise is flawed + no you won't 😊 have a nice day
@GWHayduke97 @deepfates Yes, because we’re going to stop AI forever and retreat into a society of collectivized marriage, contentment with mediocre conscious experience, and the universal resource waste of the human substrate.
@deepfates A risk for some, a benefit for others.
@deepfates It’s not the same as saying
He/she pushed my buttons.
It’s an adjective that describes an absolutely negative event.
It’s like saying wow that is horribly good 🤣
@deepfates bc when you shout "risks!" then you're a Responsible Citizen and "benefits!" makes everyone suspect a Scammy Affiliate 🤷🏼
@deepfates "causing sudden and very severe damage or terrible misfortune."
If you're talking about the dark occultists finally losing control, then yeah buddy.
@TheZvi Ayo!
@deepfates Eucatastrophe is an under-theorized phenomenon imo.
@qualitycarebear Thank you for doing science on this Please publish your results
@M_Zot_ike Study topology
@deepfates Friends with catastrophic benefits?
@deepfates Its easier for people to imagine 'what if everything goes wrong' than it is for them to imagine what they do with themselves if all their fears were misplaced.
@deepfates They've been well outlined here: