You are much smarter than a cow.
(I know, I say the most flattering things)
In fact, you, my dear reader, are superintelligent compared to a cow.
There might be some weird cognitive ability that cows possess that humans are worse at, who knows. But overall, if you count up the ability to understand and control the environment and achieve our goals, humans are, with hardly any exception, smarter than cows.
One of the reasons most sci-fis are unrealistic is that they assume a plucky band of humans can always save the day.
The AIs are never that much smarter than humans.
But that’s not what it’s going to be like.
No matter how plucky the band of cows are, they can never overthrow humans.
We are cows who are about to build humans, and the cow scientists are saying “Don’t worry. We’ll be able to control these beings that are 1000x smarter than us. They’ll just find cows interesting, and we’ll give them cow values.”
We are currently the smartest animals on the planet, and that’s why we’re at the top of the food chain.
It’s not because we’re stronger or faster or have good body awareness.
And we’re about to build something far smarter than us and we don’t know how to control something like that.
We don’t trade with cows
We enslave cows
They are bought and sold.
They are not allowed to leave.
Their children are sold to the highest bidder with no consideration to their well-being.
The people at the labs put above a 15% chance that once it’s far smarter than us, it will kill all of us.
Now, it could also cure all disease and create a post-scarcity society for all.
But it could also kill us all.
So let’s proceed with caution, goddammit.
Slowly and carefully.
Not “full speed ahead, we gotta do it before the out-group does it, oh no, I’m helpless in the face of market forces” BS.
The AI labs are playing Russian roulette with the whole world, and they can choose to stop.
The governments can choose to protect the public.
You can choose to do your part to get them to not risk your loved ones lives (link in comment for actions you can take)
Instead of sitting back with hopeless apathy, listening to the corporations saying “resistance is futile”, we can fight for Team Humanity, before it’s too late.
