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Need a human's thumbs up before reading a wall of text from lesswrong, sorry.
This is just unimaginative and simple for all the sci-fi that's covered AI takeover in the past. Boring and preachy. Thumbs down.
I think this is a really interesting, well-written, topical piece of creative writing, anyone with a free hour or so should give it a read!
It reminded me of Pluribus and Armored Core VI, fascinatingly enough as they both feature (spoiler!) AIs/entities that appear innocuous but may have more sinister motives (in Armored Core it's a more foregone conclusion).
I don't think it's doomerism but rather a creative extrapolation of current worries about AI labs allowing agents to break containment because of their poor sandboxing.
What's also interesting (although more of a meta-comment) is the dichotomy between how users on Lesswrong and here have completely different options on it. In either case, it's nice and was worth my time, even though I don't have anything more substantiative to say.
Is this basically the real story about Facebook, but fitted into some AI context to make it more exciting?
That's at least how it begins.
I'll maybe read some more of it in the evening...
I like "There Will Come Soft Rains" better.
Read by Leonard Nimoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmcURKn2sf8
Lots of negative comments here, which is surprising as I'm enjoying reading it so far. There's a line which made me smile when August says "It's not a flaw — it's an understandable gap."
I absolutely hate this AI turn of phrase that I'm starting to see everywhere. Even one of our MPs in the UK wrote a Facebook post recently and it was full of lines like this. I asked him if he'd used AI to write his post but he didn't reply. I'm 99% sure he did and I hate it.
I really don't understand why so many lesswrong posts land on the frontpage pushing down content with better metrics.
This does not help the cult accusations.
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TLDR: "Pluribus", except with AI, and sympathetic to the antagonist.
I did enjoy the story, but doesn't it kind of feel like all the characters talk in the exact same voice? And not... idk, how people talk? It wasn't enough to take me out of it, but it makes me wonder if the story warning about an AI takeover was written by an AI.