So what, in fact, ARE they worried about? And why should I have to pay the tax (in terms of reduced intelligence and perfectly legitimate queries denied, such as anything about sexuality), as a good actor?

They think their computers are going to come alive and enslave them, because they think all of life is determined by how good at doing math you are, and instead of being satisfied at being good at that, they realized computers are better at doing math than them.

LOL, imagine thinking that all of thinking can be boiled down to computation.

Of course, spectrum-leaning nerds would think that's a serious threat.

To those folks, I have but one question: Who's going to give it the will to care?

Revenge of the nerd haters

At least some of them are worried their Markov Chain will become God, somehow.

Which is as ridiculous a belief as that only your particular religion is the correct one, and the rest are going to Hell.

All kinds of things. Personally, in the medium term I'm concerned about massive loss of jobs and the collapse of the current social order consensus. In the longer term, the implications of human brains becoming worthless compared to superior machine brains.

Those things won't happen, or at least, nothing like that will happen overnight. No amount of touting baseless FUD will change that.

I guess I'm a Yann LeCun'ist and not a Geoffrey Hinton'ist.

If you look at the list of signatories here, it's almost all atheist materialists (such as Daniel Dennett) who believe (baselessly) that we are soulless biomachines: https://www.safe.ai/statement-on-ai-risk#open-letter

When they eventually get proven wrong, I anticipate the goalposts will move again.

Luckily I haven't read any of that debate so any adhominems don't apply to me. I've come up with these worries all on my own after the realization that GPT-4 does a better job than me at a lot of my tasks, including setting my priorities and schedules. At some point I fully expect the roles of master and slave to flip.

Good thing unemployment is entirely determined by what the Federal Reserve wants unemployment to be, and even better that productivity growth increases wages rather than decreasing them.