Peering into the night air, you see what seems like a flock of giant birds, which resolves into a geometric fleet of stubby-winged drone aircraft. The top of a distant building explodes into flames. At length you realize the drones are firing down on the city. There is a flash, closer this time, and the crescendo whine of incoming. Before your apartment is incinerated, you have time to think: Who is doing this?
fascinating and scary article on the coming computer superintelligence:
stevenpoole.net
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i once saw a video in which a dash-mounted camera captures a man nodding off while driving. a moment later he awakes, petrified, and then seemingly against his will he floats into the air and flies into the back seat, where he sticks to the ceiling.
that’s what makes introspection so difficult: camera placement.
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