Have you ever heard or seen something that initially seemed to be totally fine, until you saw just how truly dangerous it actually is?

What is a much bigger threat than initially presented?

  • Not a newt@piefed.caEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Before the AI craze, LLMs were a neat niche academic tool. Then the cults started forming…

      • lime!@feddit.nu
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        8 months ago

        no the cults are the people building the things. most of the openai leadership seem to be afraid of roko’s basilisk.

      • Not a newt@piefed.caEnglish
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        8 months ago

        By cults I refer to the CEOs and influencers proclaiming things like “if you’re not using AI for everything right now then you’re making yourself obsolete.” Then they go and show a few personal anecdotes to support their claim, while at the same time dismissing any and all criticism of LLMs and their products.

  • 1984@lemmy.today
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    8 months ago

    Social media. Every person is now inside a filter bubble that is not reality but they think it is.

    Affects how they think about absolutely everything. Thats why its the most dangerous threat to humanity as a whole, with big tech algorithms pushing content to people.

  • applebusch (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Religion. For most of my life I’ve seen media both implicitly and explicitly claiming that religion is a fundamental human social need, and that people who aren’t religious are the weird immoral outliers. What I’ve found is true though, is that religion is a primer for believing things contrary to evidence or reason. Faith is often promoted as a virtue in religion, and many aspects of religious thought are fundamentally unverifiable. Once someone starts down the path of believing things without evidence or critical thought, it gets easier to believe things contrary to evidence, and once you get far enough in that you could potentially be convinced to believe anything. You see this with the antivaxers, flat earthers, conspiracy theorists, far right extremists, etc. Many of these beliefs have a root in established religions, if not explicit religious justification. These things aren’t necessarily directly because of religion, people don’t really need religion to believe wacky bigoted shit contrary even to the evidence of their own eyes, but religion by it’s very nature encourages people to be uncritical. Even if the tenets of a religion are objectively good, the uncritical acceptance of ideas can easily start being applied to a person’s own biases, because it’s just so easy. It’s already easy to be uncritical of ideas but practicing it makes it so much worse. Religion is basically taking a major human weakness and promoting it as the height of virtue. Faith is intellectual sloth.

    • DomeGuy@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      That isn’t “religion”, it’s a tenet of a fraction of Christianity.

      Many religions (Judaism, Islam, Shinto, Bhuddism) do not hold faith up as a virtue, and many Christian denominations (Roman Catholic, non-evangelical Protestant) assert that your faith must include good action and rational thought.

      (We could have a conversation about the good things inspired by religion or the terrible things done by irrreligious folk who share your reverence for skepticism, but I really just wanted to point out that you were using an overly broad brush)

  • HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    8 months ago

    If you do nitrous oxide excessively & often it depletes your B-12 and deteriorates the lining of your spinal column and you can lose feeling or reduce motion and become paralyzed in worst case

  • Iconoclast@feddit.uk
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    8 months ago

    Population decline is going to be a massive problem in the not too far future yet hardly anyone is talking about it.