This seems to be a pretty typical move from the "AI Safety" crowd when folks point out that they are living in a fantasy world, enjoying imagining themselves as savoirs of humanity, etc. They briefly pretend to be concerned about harms that are somewhat less speculative,

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Bengio is quoted like this as a refutation of this quote from me:

Algorithms “combust[ing] into consciousnesses” and deciding to kill us all “is not the problem I’m worried about”

See if you can spot the logical leap in his argument

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Finally got around to reading this one and, it's not great. Mostly it's frustrating to see how the muddled logic and motivated reasoning of Yoshua Bengio & co make it hard for journalists to get and convey a clear understanding.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/science-fiction-artificial-intelligence-robots

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RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/115833933257037555

I've literally had three people reply to this with mansplaining-as-a-joke. To *this*. I'm usually pretty slow to block folks (preferring mute, if anything) but such a clear signal of disrespect for boundaries earns a block with a quickness.

PSA: If someone is posting about behavior being exhausting to the point that they are considering leaving a platform, then doing more of it "as a joke" is neither supportive nor helpful. And also not funny.

(This is re *two separate accounts* making a joke about mansplaining mansplaining to me on a post where I had already been mansplained about how to handle mansplaining.)