Former Obama Admin Official Says It’s Time To Consider Military Strikes on Chinese Data Centers to Prevent Them From Reaching AGI

https://futurism.com/science-energy/obama-admin-official-stokes-agi-china-data-centers-military-strikes

Data centers can be bombed with conventional munitions."

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21 Comments

SpicyLizards@reddthat.com · 33 pts · 14h

I was also thinking there aren't enough wars

Murse@slrpnk.net · 32 pts · 10h

Why go all the way to China? Plenty of data centers to bomb right here in the US.

Maeve@kbin.earth · 18 pts · 15h (6 replies)

Can we stop pretending Obama and his cabinet were the good guts, yet?

justsomeguy@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 14h (3 replies)

It's kinda silly to call any complex political party "the good/bad guys". Compared to the current administration of the US Obama looks like a shining knight on a unicorn. Geopolitically they did some damage too though. Libya says hi. All in all it's just too complicated to break it down to good/bad.

Either way this is just some guy who's speculating about AGI and it sounds like the usual AI company ad headline about how scary good and important their technology is. Is it though? AGI by next year, bro, we swear. Just one more datacenter, bro. China is winning the race, bro, please. A few more trillions and we'll get there, bro.

Calfpupa@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 9h

It's kinda silly to call any complex political party "the good/bad guys".

The US is not complex, if actions are taken to preserve the empire over the wellbeing of all, they are bad people.

Maeve@kbin.earth · 5 pts · 10h

Evey admin committed horrible atrocities ti take other people's resources. They were all rotten.

FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 7h

US Obama looks like a shining knight on a unicorn.

Only because, unlike Donald, he didn't open his mouth about all the shitty things he was doing every hour of every day.

Obama was just as much of a motherfucker as Donald. He was just smart enough to make his pretty, generic speeches and otherwise keep his fucking mouth shut.

mrdown@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 8h

He is a war criminal like all the other presidents

Akasazh@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 10h

It's the successor that's funny the heavy lifting tbh. Seems very sane I'm comparison.

Also: 'good guts' is a very good typo

Alexstarfire@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 15h

WCGW

echodot@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 7h

Oh come on, no one who would consider themselves to be a computer scientist thinks that LLMs will lead to AGI.

BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 3h

Oh, yeah, let's go to war with China, GREAT idea! That won't be bad for the entire fucking world at all!

OakTree@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 4h

I’m going to run with this insane take next time I’m asked if I want one of these apparently legitimate military targets in my backyard

AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 10h (1 reply)

As much as I am all for the destruction of data centers, can we not find a civil solution like having governments create malware that destroys the contents of the server and then shreds the bytes instead?

toynbee@piefed.social · 1 pts · 3h

That went ... Middlingly in Daemon by Daniel Suarez.

HubertManne@piefed.social · 2 pts · 3h

lets use obamas name as a carrot and ai as a stick to get folks onboard with something that is mother trumping stupid.

FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 7h

This is just the kind of dumb shit I'd expect out of someone who has been highly placed within the US Government.

CADmonkey@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 4h (2 replies)

That's a two way street isn't it? 🤣

BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 3h (1 reply)

MAGA always forgets that. They were SHOCKED that Iran fired back, and immediately destroyed their logistics hub in Bahrain.

MAGA thinks everybody is as stupid as they are, and they don't understand that EVERYBODY is much smarter than them. Even the Pakleds understood that they were stupid. MAGAs are dumber that Pakleds.

CADmonkey@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3h

Upvoted mostly for knowing about Pakleds.

Bobhasrunnedawayagain@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 4h

So, this is the real reason they are selling the "AGI" bs narrative to regular people. More excuses for wars. As I have been saying....the US should be considered a global threat. Nobody is safe from this warmongering lunatics. If the world won't strike first....they will.