The article HAS to be long because it’s so hard to imagine such a thing happening. Right now, software is diabolically bad in the exact opposite way being described in the article. Meaning current software is so defective, opaque, bloated, hard to use, slow, inscrutable and intensely frustrating that it seems society might collapse from a kind of informational cancer instead.
reasonable-ish, though I would claim that the article needing to be long doesn’t obviate the need for a hook in the intro that justifies itself honestly. honestly, though, it seems to me that a superintelligent system would have exactly the same kind of informational cancer, the worry could be poetically summarized as superintelligence is like injecting a massive overdose of growth hormone into an already cancer-afflicted patient.
The article HAS to be long because it’s so hard to imagine such a thing happening. Right now, software is diabolically bad in the exact opposite way being described in the article. Meaning current software is so defective, opaque, bloated, hard to use, slow, inscrutable and intensely frustrating that it seems society might collapse from a kind of informational cancer instead.
reasonable-ish, though I would claim that the article needing to be long doesn’t obviate the need for a hook in the intro that justifies itself honestly. honestly, though, it seems to me that a superintelligent system would have exactly the same kind of informational cancer, the worry could be poetically summarized as superintelligence is like injecting a massive overdose of growth hormone into an already cancer-afflicted patient.