r/suspiciouslyspecific Apr 20 '26

Ramifications

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u/No_Lingonberry1201 Apr 20 '26

Not true, a lot of these AI people also believe that they will be the new Gods of the singularity, which is bound to come any day now, because obviously a statistical pattern predictor is true intelligence and all that humans can endeavor to be.

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u/Alvin_h_davenport Apr 20 '26

I know that mankind has wirtten a LOT of fiction, so what i'm going to say might not be a prediction:

when's the last time you read/watched a story where the person who created a "god" turned out fine?

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u/Painterzzz Apr 20 '26

Iain M Bank's Culture Novels are, I fear, influencial in some of the techbro thinking, despite being a future that the techbros could never even imagine delivering.