My brand new jobsite table saw is also going to need to spend the winter in a cold shed and I’m slightly concerned. Not really sufe if there’s anything I can do about that. Wrapping it in plastic seems like something that could do more harm than good.

Then again, I’m a single guy so I could just bring it inside. Technically it does function as a table as well. Or a night stand.

Ofcourse they own more when they’ve had more time to accumulate wealth.

I still want to live longer and I find it quite insane to oppose technology that could achieve this.

Who would’ve thought that the notion of extending human lifespan would receive this level of cynicism and opposition.

You’re not trying to remove a moral status but deny it in the first place. That’s different but the end result of it still seems the same.

We used to justify the mistreatment of animals with the assumption that they had no subjective experience either. I’m not suggesting AI does but I’m also not claiming it with absolute certainty does not either, and the more we develop those systems, the more likely it seems to me that at some point there’s a good chance that they will.

The psychological drive behind the urge to call something with a derogatory term is the same in both cases.

That is how slurs tend to be used: as a tool to dehumanize something we wish to grant no moral value to.

My hot take is that anyone intentionally being mean to an AI is not a psychologically stable person and similar behaviour can most likely be observed in other parts of their life as well.

This is why “Westworld” would never work. Whether the robots there actually feel anything is beside the point. We’d simply view the people who go there to take pleasure in abusing these human-like machines as the sadistic psychopaths that they are.

I’ve got bins of copper and brass left over from work. Should probably take it to the scrapyard some day.

I highly recommend the podcast episode by Rob Reid and Sam Harris about synthetic biology. Especially if you like existential anxiety.

You’re asking me to list you examples of situations in which being physically strong is advantageous as if the answer is not obvious to literally everyone. Then I go check your message history only to discover the complete absence of even a single comment discussing anything of substance. My apologies if I’ve grown sensitive to the obvious signs when someone is not engaging in good faith and thus don’t waste my time answering their pointless questions.

If you truly can’t think of a situation in which having more strength is advantageous then I don’t think anything I say is going to change that.

It doesn’t - untill it does.

It’s only a matter of time until AI will be a better driver, pilot, captain and operator of any other machine you can think of. These systems are already good and they will only keep getting better. This is the worst they’ll ever be. It doesn’t mean that they’ll ever be flawless but the bar to reach is better-than-humans and that’s not a very high bar. Waymo and Tesla FSD are probably past that already or for the very least will soon be.

Of course one can still refuse to step in a vehicle not operated by a human but at some point this becomes equivalent to knowingly stepping into the objectively more dangerous vehicle purely out of stubbornness.