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Keep reading. What Scott really wants is

> I want to debate you so I can convert you to Pinkerism. Pinkerism rejects facile non-arguments and cherry-picked fake experts in favor of scientific consensus and rational thinking. It gracefully avoids both fatalist doomerism and dogmatic denialism in favor of confronting problems head-on. I believe that you are fertile soil for conversion to this ideology.

I've never really considered the classic Skynet scenario, maybe because I've never watched Terminator.

But I agree with the article, it seems reasonable that when AI has enough factories to sustain itself it just decides to wipe out all the humans.

(I don't know about you all, but I was very worried around GPT-2/3 and I've been grieving since. We've already lost so much with the latest introductions of thinking machines, and it keeps taking, likely it will take our lives soon.)