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drzaiusapelord on Aug 17, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: The misleading stream of articles about scientific...

I'm fully confident that we're going to look at the robot/AI panic the same way we do the Satanism panic of the 1980s. Its almost completely irrational but touted by enough influential individuals to be believable.

Its weird to witness live mass hysteria like this.

mercer on Aug 19, 2016 | [–]

Were there as many high-profile (respected?) people involved with the Satanism panic as with the 'AI panic'? Honest question.

mrfusion on Aug 17, 2016 | [–]

Great point. You could actually probably say the same thing about any panic today.

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