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34C3 - Dude, you broke the Future!
Charles Stross's 34C3 talk on how science fiction gets the future wrong. He argues that corporations are slow, human-powered AIs that optimize for profit, and that regulation lags behind accelerating technology.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN returns to it whenever corporations as paperclip-maximizer AIs or AI risk come up.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- media.ccc.de
- Topic
- corporations as artificial intelligence
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 4
- HN mentions in dataset
- 7
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2018–2024
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From the original HN conversations
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For another take on this corporations ≈ ai idea, I cannot recommend enough Charles Stross' 34C3 talk on this very topic. [VIDEO] (picks up approx 10mins in).
aaron-santos on Hacker News · 2020-02
In AI thinks like a corporation (2018)Charles Stross read the text at the 34C3. If you want to listen to it rather than read it: [1]: [VIDEO] [2]: [LINK] EDIT: Sorry, the read mode on mobile did not show the embedded video.
leipert on Hacker News · 2018-01
In Dude, you broke the futureYou could say the same about a credit card skimmer on an ATM. It's passive, right? It's just a sensor that sits there and absorbs people's data. I don't think this argument makes a lot of sense. The point is, there needs to be some …
vertexFarm on Hacker News · 2018-12
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