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AsheyDS t1_j1a6yjk wrote

Reply to comment by a4mula in A Plea for a Moratorium on the Training of Large Data Sets by a4mula

Wanting peace, cooperation, and responsible use of technology is admirable, but hardly a unique desire. If you figure out how to slow down the progress of humanity (without force) and get everybody to work together, you'll have achieved something more significant than any AI.

It's more likely that progress will continue, and we'll have to adapt or die, just like always.

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a4mula OP t1_j1a7ek2 wrote

I'm doing what I can. I'm planting a seed, right here; right now. I don't have the influence to affect global change. I have the ability to share my considerations with likeminded individuals who might have a different sphere of influence than myself.

We can affect change. Not me, some rando redditor. Probably not you, though I don't know you. But our ideas certainly can.

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Maleficent_Cloud5943 t1_j1eerhx wrote

As others have mentioned, I appreciate your goals and sentiments, but a moratorium isn't in the cards at this point. And that’s not to say it's impossible, but the people holding the cards at this point would take longer to reach some kind of feasible agreement than it will most likely take to reach the singularity. The best thing that each and every person who cares can do at this point is GET INVOLVED. And by that, I mean in any way possible, with as many other people as possible. Educate others--anyone and everyone who is willing to listen. Continue to educate yourself: for instance, if you don't know Python, learn it. Start working with as many pieces of the puzzle as you can and become a stakeholder to whatever extent you can.

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a4mula OP t1_j1egt24 wrote

I hear you. Again, if I were a betting man this seems like a sure bet. I agree entirely. But stranger things have happened, and we live in a world today in which information spreads very quickly.

Things change faster today than ever before and that includes global plans.

So I'm going to keep having this conversation in the hopes that others will at least consider it. I'm not calling for action, I didn't form it as an ultimatum. I've no right to dictate anything.

So I only ask for consideration.

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