Like we didn’t know this before:
The former head of the MI6 who was in charge during the UK’s invasion of Iraq has claimed scientists’ warnings about the dangers of artificial intelligence can necessarily be trusted because of incorrect claims they made about Covid-19.
Sir Richard Dearlove said that as ‘brilliant’ scientists had gone ‘off piste’ during the pandemic, he was sceptical of experts telling him AI will destroy humanity.
Uh huh.
But to take this to its Schrodingian feline conclusion:
I don’t believe what spooks tell me either.
See how that works?
Some famous dood once sed, and I’m paraphrasing, “I always tell the truth because there is less stuff to have to remember.”
Liars have to remember the lies they told so that they don’t get caught later on.
Seems to me to be a major PITA to have to live that way.
Hardly a day goes by that I don’t encounter half a dozen lies, or things that MIGHT be lies, in my online journeys.
As a default, if something MIGHT be a lie I just throw it in the “shitcan of lies” and move on.
Lies are common now in all online things.
Lies are less common in meatspace because “confrontation on the spot” is possible.
A persons conscience is less prominent in online occurrences, it seems, and that encourages the choice to lie.
I work inside the beast; Pournelle’s BS detector is used quite often.
I respect my management, but I hold my nose often for the presentations, sights, and speech – bovine presence.
“…said that as ‘brilliant’ scientists had gone ‘off piste’…”
I ‘think’ this would be an excellent example of using words to ‘obliterate’ communication.