Could you provide some examples of what you think these hypothetical AI’s are going to give/grant/allow these hypothetical governments that warrants the usage of enough energy they’ll actually starve people to achieve? What “competition” are these governments going to be in to necessitate this?
Comments like this are becoming far more common it seems amongst the tech community, to me anyway, that I really want an answer of what this hypothetical god-like entity is going to enable that also somehow will only be limited to a select group of people/nation/whatever and not spread throughout the rest of the world. It’s a weird dichotomy wherein “AGI” will somehow solve climate change, enable cold fusion, end human aging, spread us to the stars, but also inflict mass death, use all of the global energy if unchecked, and now, starve humans to achieve those things.
I have followed that thread, and the Alzeimer "story" with great interest over the couple years I've been aware of it - in no way was my comment above meant to be a reflection on the possibility of a "taint" or lack-of scientific rigor (to bring in another example - the lack of repeatability in, oh, nearly every(?) social psychology experiment, etc. etc.) in the scientific and medical-science fields. The rise in administration at academic levels at the expense of science, the growing discontent in scientific funding being tied to results rather than curiousity, all very important - and very important to keep a skeptical mind about it all! Absolutely, that, to me, is the core of the scientific excercise.
I only meant that, in this particular case of polio detection, the cause and origin of the case is fairly cut-and-dry (there are other articles that have been published about it that give additional information), and introducing skepticism of the manner I responded to initially is likely to do more harm than good. Disinformation often begins with a distortion of a grain of truth, and the effects of that public skepticism and, dare I say it, ignorance (ironically?) breeds the environment that causes the reemergence of, for example, polio, amongst a public that is just being "skeptical" of vaccines.
I just want to clarify for my own understanding - are you making an argument that this individual, that has been tested for and is known to have the polio virus in their body (one of the most widely understood viral infections we have), is actually not afflicted with polio because…the symptoms are comparable to other, potentially unknown, diseases or causes?
Additionally, are you claiming that virologists, an area of study that has proven, repeatedly (through the very apparent efficacy of countless vaccines for diseases that ravaged humanity for millennia) to be one of the most remarkably successful scientific endeavors in human history, is somehow…not scientifically rigorous?
(I’m going to take a lot of karma damage for this, but I believe it has to be said)
I'm rather ambivalent about it all myself, but just in case anybody else is curious I've found Nihislist Communism [1] to be the most coherently argued critique of FALC (and other utopian Marxist ideologies).
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted, as that's as true of a statement as almost anything. This weird, hypermasculine obsession with capitalism amongst this forum (and tech community at large) just perpetuates injustices.