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Someone had to say it: Scientists propose AI apocalypse kill switches (www.theregister.com)

submitted 8 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Someone had to say it: Scientists propose AI apocalypse kill switches::Better visibility and performance caps would be good for regulation too

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[–] Bogasse@lemmy.ml 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I don't like how this discussion is going so I'm gonna clarify. I obviously think it is true that america has a very important role in current world "balance", especially as an ally of western europe.

However, I think your original post made several stereotypical shortcuts. In particular, I don't think that "democratic ideals" are something that only lives in western countries. Also, talking from France, I feel as many internal threats to this democracy as external ones and america seems to be in a rather similar spot, if not worse (the whole Trump thing).

The worse thing that could happen here would be to discourage people of being proud of their country, we will need it to have the will to improve things.

[–] kromem@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Most of those internal threats are being instigated by external forces if you actually look into it.

And typically nationalist rhetoric and authoritarianism go hand in hand.

Arguably it'd be far more productive to recognize one's tribal group as humanity at large rather than artificial divides around where you work, what you look like, who you love, or where you live.

So while we can discuss national governments as distinct entities much like we'd discuss corporations, the people making both up are probably better discussed as people rather than any given subgroup.