alt Hacker NewsI swear so many people on HN are developing psychosis.
The much simpler solution is that they are building superintelligence, which they think can be used for great good (like curing most death and disease), but it is also a powerful capability that obviously needs to be regulated and is at least somewhat a matter of national security.
But nooo! Surely they are building.... terminator bots!? JFC.
> like curing most death and disease
Because people are giving them benefit of the doubt. They assume it is about something sane rather then "the goal is for some remaining humans to merge with tech as immortals and fly to the stars".