DirtyWaterHotDog
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DirtyWaterHotDog
in an abusive relationship with you lot
3d ago
It's very much insider criticism.
I work in AI, my compensation depends on it. Most folks on here (me included) are rat adjacent in some way. On paper, I'm sympathetic to Anthropic's motivation. I have friends who work at Anthropic & OpenAI, and they're normal people.
Talking to my peers in the field is why I am jaded. They express bewilderment at the opposition to AI. These are smart people. It means they're either willfully ignorant or lying. In either scenario, it scares me that the harbingers of the next era of humanity understand so little of what makes us human.
People want better food, clothing and shelter. They want better healthcare. They want safety, love, belonging and a feeling of self-esteem. Lastly, they want to self-actualize.
AI helps with none of the physiological needs. It actively makes job security worse and channels our communications through a digital middle-man, worsening shared love and belonging. It renders your skills moot by skill-mogging you, decimating your self-esteem. And lastly, its nature questions the reason for our very existence, throwing self-actualization into a tizzy.
AI automates humans. AI makes 'creative' content for free. AI personalizes ads perfectly. Other than those in the capital class, who wants this. What member of proletariat 'benefits' from AI ?
There is the marketing issue as well
That's underselling it. If you wrote super-villians that behave like Altman, Dario, Zuck and Elon, then the editor would can your script for being too on the nose.
- Altman - Fired from previous job for shady business. Fired from current job for shady business. Still CEO.
- Dario - Runs a literal doomsday cult of autists
- Zuck - Lizard man supreme
- Elon - Eugenicist Autistic Iron-man
archetype that one associates with immaturity, frivolity, narcissism, and callous disregard for other people and for human value in gener
Is it an archetype ? or is it reality.
DirtyWaterHotDog
in an abusive relationship with you lot
8d ago
It's fascinating. I'd love to observe a day in the life of such a person.
DirtyWaterHotDog
in an abusive relationship with you lot
8d ago
I struggle to see the Israeli angle. Looks like a gleeful twitter reaction to an ongoing migrant crisis than a Israel led Muslim invasion.
Israel did not force Pedro to grant amnesty to 500k immigrants. A perceived openness to illegal migrants leads to more illegal migrants. It's not rocket science. Biden's weak stance on border control prompted the migrant crisis in the US, and Trump's stance led to freeze. In either case, the mechanism of entry and the law did not change. It's perceived incentives......
(I wrote this comment before seeing who wrote the post. I should know better)
Left-leaning westerners are still capitalists. They oppose the 'turn the level up to 11' form of hyper-capitalism practiced in America (globally) and China (internally). At least the CCP periodically disappears prominent entrepreneurs, so they know its place. That's regulation. The US on the other hand, is headed towards a tyranny of an ugly coalition of mega-corps and boomer NIMBYs.
The hyperbole is unproductive. Makes your argument seem unserious. Yes, we need to replace beef = cows feasting on alfalfa. Practically all other forms of meat are valid replacements. (Note, unlike Americans, other nationals aren't as entitled about what type of meat they're eating). Lab grown meat is valid. Changing your meal's composition (eat beef 2/7 days, instead of 7/7) & eating fewer meals (Ozempic) is valid. People aren't reproducing, so fewer people is also a valid option.
Besides, AI does very little to help alleviate concerns or accelerate research in these domains.
This has been possible to do for a very long time.
People do not coordinate because they have different incentives, goals and emotional hangups. No amount of AI is going to convince a NIMBY to allow new housing or Texan to use public transportation.
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