• XLE@piefed.social
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    2 days ago

    Did anybody click the link to read the paragraph-long website text? Not only is it packed with assumptions about AI, it’s simply unhinged.

    The ability to… run intelligence systems without asking permission is of existential importance.

    Existential?! No it’s not.

    This mirrors the delusion Sam Altman demonstrated when he insisted nobody could raise a child without AI.

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      23 hours ago

      I don’t think they mean that having AI is vital. I think they mean it’s vital that the rich not have a monopoly on AI.

      Regardless whether AI is useful, its production would never have become this harmful if a rich person didn’t think they could own it and make money with it. Making a thing publicly accessible makes it less attractive to capitalists.

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        20 hours ago

        “Of existential importance” literally means they think it’s vital to existence.

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      Yes it is. If the rich and governments have it, then it’s existential. Since it’s here, it’s now existential that the people can run these intelligent systems as well.

      You all trying to curtail this tech by making it illegal in various capacities for the people is fighting for the rich, the mega corps, and the empires of this world.

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        20 hours ago

        If the rich and governments have it, then it’s existential.

        The rich have private planes too. They are not existential. They are frivolous.

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      It is now. If you want it not to be, go ahead and stop all this modern bullshit happening around me.

      You can’t yell at people on the ocean that they don’t really need boats, and then attack boats. I mean you can, but it’s foolish and unproductive.

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        AI is not saving you from anything existential.

        If you believe you’re drowning without its salvation, you’re the foolish one.

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          I think giving language a fixed agency in human society 4,000 years ago by permanently structuring it, binding it to physicality, and giving it violent control over people was a bad idea. But gurl, unless you are going back to pre written language, all this living in the modern world and yelling about “certain parts” of technology, is one of the most ignorant stances a thinking being can take.

          Unless you are taking us back back, you are a posturing, uneducated, little baby who has drank so much of the Kool aid she can’t see the forest she is in at all.

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            19 hours ago

            unless you are going back to pre written language, all this living in the modern world and yelling about “certain parts” of technology, is one of the most ignorant stances a thinking being can take.

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              18 hours ago

              Ahh I get it, thank you. The machine is hurting you specifically now and so you’re lashing out.

              “The other stuff, that was cool, but daddy said we were good and everything was chill while we watched the degenerates and the environment burn! but that was a lie! We’re not chill! And now Daddy wants my flower too!”

              They’re going to do to your AC what they did to the buffalo🤣