• Gnothi@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’ve never heard the singularity referred to as AI panic. It’s usually talked about as a good thing. The point when technology becomes infinitely self-improving. If someone was a promoter of the singularity, that would mean they are trying to achieve/advocate for it not prevent it.

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      1 year ago

      the orgs on the left and adjacent environments use the singularity as yet another way to say “not only we are unleashing a dangerous technology, but it might even become continously self-improving”. It’s a form of magical thinking (the idea of singularity defies many rules of physics and logic) that could be positive magic or negative magic, depending on the kind of propaganda you’re pushing. Since it has no connection with reality, it helps build whatever scenario you desire.