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UPD 07/16/2023: This is all nonsense, never mind.
>I think we'd do well to consider how the rest of the world is going to think about AGI, once they really start to think about it.
Why are you sure it hasn't happened yet? The last year was perceived for me (in Moscow) as a nightmarish heap of nonsense, but everything becomes devilishly logical, if we assume that Putin understands as well as you and I what the emergence of AI threatens him personally (well, and humanity, at the same time), and is ready to do anything to prevent this.
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It's an interesting thought; I have read that Putin mentioned that whoever controls AI controls the world a few years ago. I think in general the sense of a great upcoming transformation may have forced his hand, but I always assumed it was climate change (Ukraine is a big agricultural state after all).
But of course it could also be personal (his own mortality making him feel like he has to leave a legacy). AI was not an angle I had considered; if this really was about looking for a nuclear casus belli then the situation would be even more dangerous than it seems. I doubt it though personally; if he wanted that, couldn't he have gotten away at least with first use of tactical nukes in Ukraine? That would be a ramp to escalation.
UPD 07/16/2023: This is all nonsense, never mind.
>It's an interesting thought; I have read that Putin mentioned that whoever controls AI controls the world a few years ago.
In reality, he said that whoever controls the AI will "become the Overlord of the World" ("станет Властелином Мира").
(I'm not sure how to translate correctly - Master, Ruler, Lord ... but you can’t call a country like that - only a person, and this is an established phrase for denoting the ultimate goal of all sorts of evil geniuses and supervillains. )
Putin said this at least t... (read more)