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Perhaps conspiracy theories about scientific issues find fertile ground when knowledge is habitually presented with authority, paternalism, condescension or coercion. Or simply concealed.
If so, a bit more "No one knows but this is our best guess and here's why" might help.
"Measles is surging again because Covid destroyed trust in the medical establishment"
No: measles is back because conspiracy theory destroyed trust in the medical establishment – and in sanity more generally
telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2…
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Oh? I thought your position was that history will not look back, period.
But if history does look back, it will surely look back favourably on those who persevered in benefitting humankind despite prophecies of doom that were never borne out.
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AI Experts Aren’t Always Right About AI, says @tylercowen: "Decentralized social systems are fairly robust; the world has survived technological upheavals in the past; ...intellectuals can too easily talk themselves into pending doom...The best way to create safety is by addressing problems along the way... rather than by having abstract discussions on the internet." bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… via @opinion
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95% of all AI paranoia is asking, coaxing, BEGGING ChatGPT to cosplay as Evil Overlord, then tweeting how shockingly well it did what you asked it to do
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I've just found out that several of the anomalous GPT tokens ("TheNitromeFan", " SolidGoldMagikarp", " davidjl", " Smartstocks", " RandomRedditorWithNo", ) are handles of people who are (competitively? collaboratively?) counting to infinity on a Reddit forum. I kid you not.
RT @emollick: Want to see how much AI has advanced in two months?
Here is an AI-generated person with a (now realistic!) AI-generated voic…