One nit picky correction on that scenario

In Reply to: Here's one doomday scenario that's a lot closer than 10 years. posted by mh on September 14, 2026 at 09:50:36

AIS, as they're currently constituted, require a lot of processing power and data, which ordinary servers can't come close to duplicating. That's why they need those data centers. So they can't just replicate themselves willy nilly.

What they can do instead is take control of those servers and make them subservient to itself. We can plug the rest of your scenario in after that step.

In terms of taking over and replicating itself, that would have to be a battle between data centers, and I'm sure the captains of our industry, i.e., the boy geniuses, have thought through that problem since they are famously all caution as opposed to, I dunno, "moving fast and breaking things".

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• Re: One nit picky correction on that scenario TheHappyBurgermeister 21:44:24 09/14/26 (3)
  • Right. So when they're attacking a server they're simply blindness 23:16:24 09/14/26 (2)
    • Re: Right. So when they're attacking a server they're simply TheHappyBurgermeister 07:28:23 09/15/26 (1)
      • It's not becessary. I think mh was referring to its compounding blindness 08:59:04 09/15/26 (0)
• True. But a key point is that once it takes control, ... mh 12:29:01 09/14/26 (3)
  • I'd say it's because an AI sees the actions it takes from a blindness 12:53:08 09/14/26 (2)
    • Can t we just challenge it to a game of tic tac toe? * azbruin 13:44:01 09/14/26 (1)
      • Global Thermonuclear War seems more likely* mh 14:46:42 09/14/26 (0)

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