xgranade, 10 days ago

(This is a sardonic and not serious take. Please don't Church–Turing Thesis-splain me.)

xgranade, 10 days ago

The more serious version of this is that the downside of having a device that can do whatever it's told — not just the thing it was designed for — is that you then have all the power dynamics involved in deciding who gets to tell that device what to do.

felix, 10 days ago

@xgranade Superman III got that right four decades ago:

"This computer will be able to do anything I tell it to do."

"What's in it for me?"

"I'll tell it to do whatever you tell me."