Cory Doctorow on Nostr: As I read the Weinersmiths' critique of space settlement, I kept thinking of the ...
As I read the Weinersmiths' critique of space settlement, I kept thinking of the pointless #AI debates I keep getting dragged into. Arguments for space settlement that turn on #ExistentialRisks (like humanity being wiped out by comets, sunspots, nuclear armageddon or climate collapse) sound an awful lot like the arguments about #AISafety - the "risk" that the plausible sentence generator is on the verge of becoming conscious and turning us all into paperclips.
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