[ExI] interesting take on nuclear power

[spike at rainier66.com]

From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
Subject: Re: [ExI] interesting take on nuclear power

 

On Sun, Mar 10, 2024 at 9:56 AM BillK via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org <mailto:extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> > wrote:

 

 

 

>…My point is, replacing 95% of marketers is a far cry from recursive self-improvement… Adrian

 

 

Adrian, it wasn’t where you were going with the comment, but it gave me an idea anyway.  The marketing industry is huge and attracts real talent to work in it, lotsa money, lotsa human ability invested in marketing.  It functions to get us to do things, buy things, etc, but much of the industry is working against itself: marketing products competing for each other for instance. 

 

But what if… a marketing group all worked together, coming at a promotion from different angles but all trying to get humanity to buy something or buy into an idea or do a task.

 

OK now imagine AI being able to do marketing, and of course AI is practically free compared to humans.

 

So now imagine AI-driven marketing compelling humans to work on AI, specifically self-improving AI.

 

By my reasoning, that step would logically predate the singularity.  So when you start seeing advertisement compelling you to work on recursively improving AI, then it is clearly time to kiss your ass goodbye.

 

spike

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