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3 panel comic

Panel 1: Red Guy in t-shirt is sitting at a desk being interviewed. He says “AI is going to kill us all”

Panel 2: Interviewer looking directly into camera, says “Well, we’ve heard from the anti-Ai guy. Now let’s hear from the CEO of AI

Panel 3: Wide shot revealing the second interviewee looking slightly confused. He says “I’m the Anti-AI guy”

  • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.ukEnglish
    21·
    12 hours ago

    Long after we’ve eliminated nukes, capitalism, climate change, and “AI”, certainty and normality will still be humanity’s greatest threats.

      • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.ukEnglish
        5·
        9 hours ago

        Normality is behavioural inertia. Habits and habits of perception. It’s what keeps everything going even though everyone with a nervous system knows that the world is run by pedophiles and psychopaths, the planet is dying, and everyone just… keeps acting normal. Even if we solved all our problems, we would still have this tendency.

        Certainty, too, is a pernicious tendency of the human mind. Nobody’s smart enough to hold ideas lightly, people crave certainty. They want to just believe anything that pops into their heads and kill anyone who did the same thing and dared to come up with something different. The more you know the less certain you get, and everyone’s so damned ignorant. We may live in the information age but it is not a light that illumines, but a glare that blinds.

        Anyway, that’s my Howard Beale rant. Thanks for asking.

        • wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          8 hours ago

          You sound like you would enjoy the book “A Canticle for Leibowitz”. If you haven’t read it, you should! Not because it proves your point, but because it had something to day tangential to your rant.