All of those things you listed (electricity, microwaves, nuclear) have incredible risks and have killed many people who did not take caution with new technology. Powerful tools must be treated with caution and respect.
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All of those things he listed have killed orders of magnitude fewer people than the things they can replace (leather belt power transmission, briquette coal stoves, coal-fired power stations).
Every day those technologies have been delayed is another pile of human corpses.
Haters sorry wen?
What? Leather belt power transmission? What are you on about?
So your argument is: you're absolutely correct but but but whale blubber candles killed people in the past!!!! Haters sooo Madd lulz
Just to be clear; I could give two squirts of piss about AI being regulated by a government body... move fast and break as much shit as possible. I DO care about a government body regulating nuclear power, electrical generation, and radio/microwave frequencies... as you can kill alot of people if you don't set standards. I find Jimmy analogy to be dumb and misguided.
Wait.... who is Jimmy Analogy? Sounds like a cool guy
The main user of electricity is industry.
Before industry used electricity, they used power transmission in the form of spinning leather belts, high pressure steam, or direct use of coal / coalgas flame.
Millions of Westerners were killed or maimed in the 1800s. China is only phasing out coal-fired boilers since 1990s.
Sue your highschool, for failure to educate.
Again, your argument has zero to do with my original statement. Whatever random tangent you choose to go off on does not invalidate what I said.
You were wrong on every one of those points just now.
And Western governments were wrong on every one of those points then, and are wrong on AI now.
Ignorance doesn't just happen, especially not today. It requires a disciplined, lifelong commitment to avoiding learning.
We need to stop delegating power, especially to the ignorant.
Habanero: "All of those things you listed (electricity, microwaves, nuclear) have incredible risks and have killed many people who did not take caution"
You are saying this statement is wrong?
How someone can be clueful enough to install a nostr app, yet so uninformed about the history of technology, is a damning indictment of Western education.
I'm not superstitious, but this is one of those footsteps-on-our-collective-graves moments.
Have you ever heard a belt powered factory, though? Gosh, it's quieter than you'd expect and there's a wonderful cadence to things. It's so soothing...
I've been inside one! Amazingly simple yet ingenious tech. Scary are f--- with all those belts, but pretty quiet. Was making repro wagons and wagon wheels.
I'm sure many factories of that era were less quiet, though! Metal stamping and forging etc
Oh, sure, but you don't have the blast of pneumatics or the whinr of motors. Even if power hammers are quiet aside from the striking, of course.
I believe you!
Output per worker, per death, per megajoule, per tonne of CO2 and per unit area skyrocketed with the introduction of electricity, to return to the original topic.
Government (and monopolist) actions to delay this led to so many needless deaths... :(