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Memetic Bombs and Inbreeding
AI is bombing us out of our minds and maybe itself out of a future
While for years we were all so worried about being nuked we didn’t see coming the next level bomb that is now exploding all over the planet—AI. Humanity is really good at unleashing things it can’t control. Our little nuclear trick to end WW2 within the space of a few years had spread around the globe and went from kiloton city killers to megaton state killers. Not just killers of people, but killers of all plants and creatures in the kill zone and for good measure, centuries worth of radioactive poison for the ecosystem. Brilliant, humanity, brilliant! We unleashed engines and furnaces everywhere, powered by fossil fuels, releasing tens of millions of years worth of stored solar energy in the span of a century. What could go wrong? So many other wonderful things we have made like forever chemicals and plastics that never go away are continuing to seep into the Biosphere minute by minute. Those are all bad enough and thank God the nukes haven’t been used since 1945 (though many tests) but they might pale in comparison to our next folly, driven by insatiable greed for money and power.
AI is currently exploding as a sort of bomb for our minds, and there is very little chance of fully controlling it. It may actually turn into a supernova (i.e. the Singularity)…
