I completely agree, the risk has to be taken seriously. My point is that just because you can formulate the prediction “the AI will take over the Internet and use its resources” it doesn’t make it more likely. You personally can’t take over the Internet and if the AI isn’t much more intelligent from the very beginning then it won’t be able to do so either.
But scale up the expedition corp and the demise of the Rome is more and more probable.
It can’t make use of magic to acquire additional resources because magic depends on additional resources. It has to use what it has under the hood.
I agree with you that there is no real magic. But there might be an apparent magic. Something that looks like a magic.
100 Navy Seals MIGHT be enough to bring down the Roman empire. Or might not.
But scale up the expedition corp and the demise of the Rome is more and more probable.
The same goes with the SAI. Maybe it can catch us off guards easily. IFF all the circumstances are just right.
The positions about this are something like:
The SIAI: Very likely!
The academics: We don’t see any surprise to come.
Yours: Keep our heads cool, there is nothing like magic.
Mine: We can expect the Hell, but only if we are not smart enough.
99 Navy Seals, 1 biologist and a few boxes of disease samples. Piece of cake.
I completely agree, the risk has to be taken seriously. My point is that just because you can formulate the prediction “the AI will take over the Internet and use its resources” it doesn’t make it more likely. You personally can’t take over the Internet and if the AI isn’t much more intelligent from the very beginning then it won’t be able to do so either.
It can’t make use of magic to acquire additional resources because magic depends on additional resources. It has to use what it has under the hood.