Machines should Work. People should Think Discord: PixelCanuck
Alberta, Canada
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I think I'm going to leave this account behind, it is time to move on
It's been nice, thank you if you've followed me this long and such
If you want to keep in touch, send me a message on Discord
Otherwise, if I don't see you again, all the best. Good luck out there everyone
AI is contributing to this decline, so if you really do love it, you're part of the decline problem
I often feel insanely privileged that I got to be a kid in the 1980s and a young adult in the 1990s because I feel those were the golden age of modern civilization. Right now we’re just in a decline and I don’t see that decline ending any time soon.
Don’t get me wrong I love AI and other modern tech but those days were the best. Not a freaking worry in the world.
And "We don't need humans at all" should terrify you
Go look up what happened to horses after we replaced them with the automobile
Here's a hint: Many of them didn't exactly live out the rest of their days in a field, peacefully enjoying their lives with every need fulfilled
No. AI is not at all like going from a carriage to a car. Both the carriage and the car needed a human to drive them. It’s just that with the car the human is going faster and farther. AI removes the human from the equation completely. That’s what people aren’t grasping. This technology is different in kind from anything else that has ever existed or ever been invented in the entire history of humanity. Prior to this, we invented better tools for humans to use. Now the tool has its own brain and doesn’t need humans at all.
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No. AI is not at all like going from a carriage to a car. Both the carriage and the car needed a human to drive them. It’s just that with the car the human is going faster and farther. AI removes the human from the equation completely. That’s what people aren’t grasping. This technology is different in kind from anything else that has ever existed or ever been invented in the entire history of humanity. Prior to this, we invented better tools for humans to use. Now the tool has its own brain and doesn’t need humans at all.
This does seem like a very likely outcome
Nothing is 100%, of course
But I pretty strongly agree that this is a very likely outcome
And what comes after 10 people become Trillionaires is the rest of us become obsolete
The best we can hope for us UBI
People say that we shouldn’t worry about AI wiping out jobs. The jobs will just change, they say. But the whole point of AI is that it removes the human component entirely. The jobs aren’t going to change. They’ll just disappear. AI will make like 10 people into trillionaires. Almost everyone else will be screwed. Mass unemployment. Millions of workers rendered irrelevant all at once. That’s what’s going to happen. Not maybe. Not might. It’s going to happen. And it doesn’t seem like we’re doing anything at all to prepare for it.
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This is such a dumb objection. First of all, many of the warnings and dire predictions about industrialization and automation absolutely DID come to pass. Second, even if they didn’t, that doesn’t mean the critics are wrong about AI. “People falsely predicted that a certain technology will harm humanity therefore no technology will ever harm humanity” is basically the argument you’re making. Very dumb.
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It’s a RECESSION INTO ALL TIME HIGHS… for Main St
The AI cycle drives nominal GDP higher and Wall St higher, but that is only driving the high-end consumer spending in the high-end segments of the economy.
Re-acelleration for the Haves but NOT the Have-Nots
#InflationaryAssets
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My grandmother was on the Manhattan project fresh out of school with a BS, and worked with von Braun after that. I need a full masters with a research thesis to teach literally 9th grade science standards to nursing students at the community college. We've lost the plot
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Exactly. The “ things are inevitable” excuse is psychotic. It’s not pragmatic to say “things are inevitable” and use that as an excuse to me engage with said thing with abandon, especially if it’s harmful or evil. Thats how terrible acts are upheld and normalized by regular folks
Genuine question: What fight is there to have?
I agree that we should be doing everything we can but, without going into the realm of real physical violence I don't see how we push back on this in a productive way
It's weird that we can all clearly see how AI is about to wipe out millions of jobs all at once, destroy every artistic field, make it impossible for us to discern reality from fiction, and destroy human civilization as we know it, and yet not one single thing is being done to stop it. We aren't putting up any fight whatsoever.
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It's weird that we can all clearly see how AI is about to wipe out millions of jobs all at once, destroy every artistic field, make it impossible for us to discern reality from fiction, and destroy human civilization as we know it, and yet not one single thing is being done to stop it. We aren't putting up any fight whatsoever.
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"Write what you know" was good advice for novelists when most of them had been drafted, or hitchhiked across the country with drug-addled degenerates, or worked as a migrant rancher. It’s bad advice for people who mostly just know how to turn in homework assignments.
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So strange that OpenAI doesn't seem to think we have rights over the text, images, and video they stole for training but there certainly is a Sora watermark on every slop video their app makes.
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Can anyone name one societal advantage as AI takes over?
How does it better our lives?
All I see is:
Massive job losses/layoffs
Pollution
Energy drain raising electricity bills
Financial repression
It’s a big win for corporations and the 1%
A huge loss for the rest of us
