"We are living in a science fiction world": AIX risk debate over light-cone arguments
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-11-14
Quoting mmjukic's argument that disproving speculative "AI devouring the light cone" hypotheses carries a burden of proof so high it can only be settled empirically, the author responds that we already live in a sci-fi world — phone-scale float packs pass the Turing test, we've just grown used to the "AI accent," and there's little left to argue.
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