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duskwuff on May 13, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: It Awaits Your Experiments

"Checkers or chess?"

But yes. Especially when you boil it down to the essentials: humans take an AI built to perform one task and press it into duty for another, much more impactful task which it was completely unsuited for.

throwanem on May 14, 2025 [–]

But, importantly, not obviously completely unsuited for. Indeed, so subtly so that it almost ended the world before anyone noticed.

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