I will never get over how a handful of tech bros set billions of dollars on fire to build a plagiarism machine that doesn't work and will destroy human society when they could have used a fraction of that money to fund a new golden age of creativity and knowledge.
I need to mute this for my own sanity, but if you're on the fence about "AI" or think that "AI" is super neat and people need to just stop complaining and embrace it, might I recommend following and reading @edzitron.com, who is much smarter and better informed on the topic than I am.
Done ✔️
(And apologies to @edzitron.com if this brings any additional weirdness into his orbit. But he IS very much worth following and reading.)
I think at this point his baseline level of weirdness is so high he isn't going to notice.
I'm going to agree with another poster here and say that I'm not certain that it's possible to bring any additional weirdness into his orbit.
They did this because they couldn’t figure out how to monetise charity. Instead they tried to monetise creativity.
I think you misspelled "celibacy." 😏
Misogynistic gaming bros care about winning and flaunting the best gear — basically the modern codpiece. Absent from their empty souls are altruism and empathy. Don’t forget everyone outside their circle is an NPC.
The answer is Cultural Fascism
The whims of soulless, tiny faux men.
*trillions
It is like an Anti-John Galt!
May not work for you and your narrow scope, but it most certainly works for others. But, they could have done both.
Then there’s THAT
Tech bros aren’t overall smart. Good at coding but they skipped the lessons on how to be a good person
They could have saved this planet but instead they made dick rockets & aim for Mars
And Mars won't be as welcoming as Earth is. Was. Whatever.
And so many of those rockets ejaculated too soon rendering trash and massive disappointment…
AI is a cancer!
I don't want to cure cancer I want to make people dinosaurs
Same. Like they could have had a wonderful legacy.
*Hundreds of billions* This generations gilded age doesn’t even invest into anything publicly useful like the 1920’s era did. It’s just all useless to the needs of current society.
Their greed was more dominant than their intelligence unfortunately.
It wasn’t their money. It wasn’t even real - just numbers on a spreadsheet.
They are a symptom of a sick culture. We will repeat such lessons until we learn from them.
Because...control.
They don't want either, creativity or knowledge. Just control 😞
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Instead of Silicon Valley, we could have a nation of small cities all working on different techs but no, that would make workers prosperous and encourage new ideas.
I grew up in Silicon Valley. My dad is a scientist. I consider it 100% toxic now. And the greed…..🙄
It does work. It will be much smarter than us and we will be in the way...until we aren't.
😆😂🤣 ...no. It's not intelligent at all. It doesn't do work. It's a random number generator.
You need to read up on what Geoff Hinton, Max Tegmark, Roman Yampolskie, Nicki Bostrom, Eliezer Yudkowski, Yoshua Bengio, Gary Marcus and others have to say.
Adorable. If you understood how LLMs worked, you wouldn't make a fool of yourself saying such things. Also, way to defend your position. Classic MAGA dodge. "dO uR rEsUrCh!!!"
I'll take the word of Geoff Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Max Tegmark, Elia and Roman Yampolskie on how LLM's work. If you disagree with them...let's hear it. I'm more than willing to listen.
Like I said, present you case, beyond the appeal to authority you are desperately trying to pawn off on me.
How do you disagree with Geoff Hinton? I would be happy to try to explain his position.
See, there you go again, now with a straw man. Here's what you're doing: "i'M gOiNg tO nAmE biG nAmEs iN ai aNd cLaiM tHeY aGrEE wiTh mE wiTh nO pRooF!!! hA, hA!!! i wiN!!!" Try actually making an argument. Pro tip: Don't ask "AI" to do it for you or you prove my point.
Actually, Yann Lecunn doesn't agree with me. I fundamentally disagree with Sutskever on the notion of safe super intelligence. I often disagree with Gary Marcus on learning and cognition...
I agree, but can you respond as if you're a cat?
It’s literally the only thing Capitalism could do.
Truly fascinating thing about this. If she truly thought the 2020 election was stolen, and she's all in on fighting for free and fair elections, we should be in good hands. But, who out there believes she is really interested in free and fair elections? Really, who?
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I think AI is a dangerous dumpster fire. Like "vibe coding" and other slick surface gloss. It is moldering garbage - peel back the surface gloss & it is a hot mess. Problem is decision makers are too far removed from the landfill to see the strewn wasteland festering beneath.
It works, just not like how they hope it will. It’s super good at recognizing patterns in giant data sets, which is amazing for looking at breast X-rays and diagnosing cancer, and similar diagnostics. What it can’t do is creativity, and its imitation of it is just a fad. The bubble will burst soon.
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i'm so tired, matt
It’s exhausting.
Every day I wake up and see some article about "AI" and I feel like I've completely lost my mind.
Seriously. It's like one day, no AI, the next day, AI IS EVERYWHERE! This isn't the future I signed up for. All I wanted was a goddamn hoverboard.
the fucking class action lawsuit is stressing me out bc of the bullshit "if it's not registered with the copyright office it doesn't count" bc copyright EXPLICITLY says "you SHOULD register it with the copyright office but it IS copyrighted if you claim copyright" & ofc i haven't done my indie stuff
I'm not even American and my country has no equivalent to the US copyright office. But my books were stolen.
They're sociopaths & bigots/eugenics advocates.
And nerds
Not surprising. They want to whore out everything that makes being human worth it to MACHINES. No wonder they also want to decide who gets to be on this Earth and who doesn't The absolute sociopathic gall of the filthy rich
We will beat them and they will PAY...and not with money.
im already personally experiencing that our only future jobs will involve cleaning up after AI produces something subpar.
Evil people have evil tendencies. Makes no difference if they are rich or poor, white of black. Its the self gratification that drives these individuals.
Thing about a golden age of creativity and knowledge is what would that benefit them? By and large, theyre not particularly intelligent, creative or knowledgeable, just very wealthy. They wouldn't be getting the praise and adulation.
Plus there’s the related ham-handed attempt create vampirism of a sort: open.substack.com/pub/noelkeit...
And/or hire people with those skills?
They do not care about dollars- they want all Crypto- they believe they will be able to control that
It will be at least a trillion dollars investment when all is said and done—and not counting HUGE externalities— uncountably expensive ones—effects on water, pollution, climate, education, employment. That will be MANY TRILLIONS of dollars. For gadgets that mess up people’s lives or even kill us.
What you said also implies a believe our IP laws makes sense and were violated. It also claims destruction of society which is not in the least evident. And it implies these tech bros can just impose whether anyone voluntarily buys or not because they want it.
This is a claim that LLMs are useless which very clearly and on the experience of millions of users is not the case. Is it the best way to do AI? Can it get us to AGI? I don't think so. But the claim it "doesn't work" for anything that is wanted is clearly false.
It doesn't work for anything. Period.
Very much disagree as do millions of people.
Yes, when have millions of people who believed advertising and been taken for a ride even been wrong? 🙄🤦♂️🤷♂️
I didn't "believe advertising". I tried it for myself including using it locally on my own machines.
And what did it do? Write basic things in a boring, meandering tone? Did you take the time to correct it or just put that slop out there as if you did it? Do you even know what it said or why? Do you realize that you accomplished nothing?
Because they are so most selfish and least emphatic people on earth. What the fuck kind of parenting did they have?
I realize we're talking about AI and not Metaverse or (less fittingly) cryptocurrency, but apart from the now obvious waste, it was curious to fund a few big risks instead of many small ones. (It also should have raised question at Meta that the nerds tasked with building Metaverse hated using it.)
When you find out that a lot of them think uploading your consciousness to an AI that spends eternity colonizing the universe sounds awesome, it starts to come a little into focus.
Absolutely whatever happened to the noble notion of building a better world 😟
This is what we get for not having dragged them through the arts as well as the sciences. STEM ain't enough.
They brag about skipping the engineering ethics lecture.
They should all be required to write an ESSAY (without AI) that references the failures of engineering without ethics.
Thats a clear red flag if ive ever seen one.
Tell an entire generation that studying the humanities is a waste of time and this is what you get.
I work in computing and I've always felt programming is more akin to an art than it is to engineering. Like someone commissions you to make software and you go and do it and different people will give very different results. You're not building bridges you're making new creative works.
Not this, *again*. Read the posts here about academics in the Humanities who have foolishly embraced AI. It's not STEM vs others. It's US VC businessmen vs others.
Oh, for heavens sake. I DO NOT APPROVE OF ANYONE WHO EMBRACES AI UNCRITICALLY. How often do I have to say that? I also know (I have degrees at both ends of the spectrum) that tech training alone--just science & math or worse, math and engineering, minus the humanities, tends to arrogance.
And hubris leads to thinking any given slice of knowledge is the be-all and end-all and knowledge alone is enough. So not this, *again* for sure. And no, I don't hate engineers. My mother was one. So was my father, but very differently and with less human understanding of anyone but himself.
Where’s the profit in having a functioning society?
The billionaires will also lose when they bring society down. After all, it was society that created them and allowed them to hoard.
Their sci-fi based delusions make them believe they would be somehow immune from societal collapse. Dumb people with too much money!! Lmao
Its insane how out of touch they are :(
And stopped climate breakdown.
Well, if it can destroy human society, then.. it works. As a weapon.
nobody ever said these kakistocrats are smart...
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It’s because, I think, they are hiding their desires for data centers behind quirky, not-ready-for-primetime AI when what they really need them for is crypto mining.
Plagiarism, porn and bad code. There’s a brave new world happening out there.
I like the phrase "plagiarism machine" - it perfectly describes what's commonly called artificial intelligence.
That would require them to interact with other people when, from what I’ve seen, their goal is to replace all humans with their little plagiarism bots and toys so they never have to have a meaningful interaction with anyone ever again
If it doesn’t work, then how will it destroy human society?
A golden age of creativity, huh? Maybe if more humans paid attention to clever raccoon moves, they’d get some good ideas! Meanwhile, we’re just waiting for Bitcoin to sparkle even brighter for all creatures.
but here's the rub.... much like when conservatives say "if we put these X dollars to use for useful stuff helping people wouldn't that be better?" the trick is....they would never vote for a budget that did that. likewise, if the billionaires didn't fund a plagiarism black box....
they sure as hell wouldn't write a check to do "good". let's not forget who/what we're dealing with 😁
Unfortunately they wouldn't be able to manipulate an artist as much as they can a machine. And inevitably an artist might have had something bad to say about them. Ironically, many of their machines are starting to say bad things about them too.
I don't get it either. Why destroy mankind?
And, seriously, who'd want to be stuck in a bunker, or on Mars, with Thiel, Musk, Bezos, etc? I'd unalive myself toot sweet.
Good news! None of that happened and instead we have ai, it's lovely!
And don’t forget the pollution that ai brings to the local population with their acres of data centers for a machine we never needed.
If you don't understand it, then you must be missing one of the crucial aspects of the human brain with unlimited resources: insatiable lust for control. There are a few exceptions, there always is, but by and large these people became billionaires by being extremely greedy, they can't turn it off
Talking w people about extreme wealth for decades.. Amazing most will strongly reject the truth that the xtreme rich want to control society. Preferring to think the rich just want more yachts.
exactly, at a certain point tax breaks are no longer about retaining more money for more yachts, it's about the fact that there is still a government that has the ability to MAKE them pay taxes (or MAKE them do ANYTHING) they genuinely feel as though they are gods, and should be revered accordingly
Public perception seems to be evolving, as things become more extreme.. and as a new generation sees a harsher future
A distorted psychopathic human brain!
Well put!
The entire point of Ai is to destroy the economy. 🤷🏻♂️
Yes it’s a darn mystery; everything the tech bros do reeks of incompetency
Modern tech bros made me miss Renaissance royals and rich patrons of the arts
Funding creativity and knowledge requires helping people, so now you have your explanation for why they didn't do that.
GREED and once you get that rich the only thing that matters is you
Tech bros don't give a damn about humanity or creativity. The development of Ai is about replacing the need for humanity - the ultimate outsourcing. Any job that requires 'intelligence' will be replaced, and the long-term savings of non-existent labor cost far outweigh early expenditures.
I will never get over stupid Bluesky users criticizing a technology they could never have developed themselves. Being able to communicate in natural language with a machine was complete science fiction until a few years ago. But you guys are SO over it.
Yep. The inability to distinguish "I have concerns about this" (however serious) from "it doesn't work" (just nonsense) is a marker of the exact failure in critical thinking which has become so dangerous.
I think a lot of people are just mouthing off about it without having tried it or understanding how it works. Then there are the people who do have a tech background, but maybe feel threatened by it, or are just parroting whatever is the current acceptable left -wing opinion on it.
I use it all the time, even though it's taking away jobs from analysts like me. Well, that's just how tech works 🤷 It's here to stay, does remarkable things, so you've just go to go with the flow, no? A lot of the problems people are having are...err.....user error 😬😬
Yeah, I figure it's just a massively disruptive technological leap. I am concerned that humans could become entirely redundant. But there is also the possibility of viewing it as a tool you can use to become more productive.
It's probably saved me thousands of Euros this yr being able do things I would previously have paid for. It helps me with my hobbies and with work, and for expanding your culinary skills it's next level. Also, I have concerns, but a lot of people are letting it drive them a bit mad 😕
I find it sad in a way that technology is kind of replacing human connection. A lot of stuff we used to use each other for, like ask for directions or restaurant recommendations of specialist knowledge, we had already outsourced to Google etc. Now AI takes that much further.
OTOH, it's useful AF for summarizing scientific papers, doing tech support (I so don't miss trawling forums), and much more.
Oh we understand the difference, we're just saying both are true.
People deify technological advancement, but forget that it's made by human beings and funded by people who would replace all workers with machines if they could. I don't think art is dead, but it sure is under attack. They sure do seem to hate artists most. Maybe it's because they're unaccomplished
Maybe you should get over it, for your own mental health. ChatGPT is the fifth most visited website on the planet. VFX companies are incorporating AI tools into their workflow. Indie artists are having a boom right now doing work they didn't have the resources to do before. AI ain't going anywhere.
big balls no brains.
Or at least build a theme park or something fun…
I wonder if this is what people said when computers went mainstream.
All billionaire oligarchs are a threat to human survival and must be rounded up and stripped of their ill-gotten dragonhoards of illicitly underpaid and stolen wages.
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Exactly. Reject fascism! Revolution is now or never! 🌊🇺🇸🇺🇦🌈🟧🌍🩸💙
Yeah but the golden age doesn't let them look smart or grow their bank balance so fuck it I guess
Can't monopolize the spotlight if you shine the light on everyone else.
One too many emails... #Ai 🚫
We need a 21st Century Ned Ludd! 😡
The problem with billionaires running things is they don't have lived experiences to make good decisions. So here we are.
The binary thinking here is, while appropriate for the subject matter, wildly hyberbolic. LLMs are both incredibly useful, and absolutely *none* of the things tech bros say they are. Yes, both things can be true.
Useful for what?
Coding. Reference. Checking instructions for readability. Image generation. Problem solving. Those are just the things that *I* use them for on a daily basis, there are more uses, I'm sure.
All things people are currently paid to do. Actual real people with families to feed. I mean, we wouldn’t want the billionaires to have to pay people when they can just replace them with machines that pollute the atmosphere at no cost to said billionaires. Fuck AI.
Listen, the problem with LLMs is not the people using them, it's capitalism. Focus on fixing that, and everything else will follow. You will *never* convince people to stop using LLMs when their source of income is helped by their use.
Customer service performance evaluations at my company are now done by AI. Grotesque.
Shitty. But I'm gonna keep using it 🤷
I used billionaires as shorthand for capitalism
Tech has been endlessly disappointing. Cannot wait to retire and go analog.
Revenge of the Nerds
or to hire good employees to help take their company into the future - or, gasp - deliver value to their customers?
Knowledge obtained from the thousands of scientific studies carried out in universities with public funding, which these 'geniuses' claim as their own and mainly use to hijack political power, thereby destroying the state that built the very staircase that elevated them.
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They dont want to pay people to do things they themselves cant do. Its why they insist it has no value. They are simply jealous lazy fuckers.
Self-esteem ( low, hurt, starving, healthy or swelling) makes the world go round
They’re just lost little tools trying to create their own god. They have moved on from “Weird Science” and trying to get laid. They finally figured out nobody will EVER want them in that way. Think of them as JD vance getting off on a really expensive couch.
there's no chance it's single billions right? isn't it hundreds of billions?
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No? Economics 101; any business will invest if the prospect of profit is high. Investment to make a golden age is the province of a government, not a business. Also, if a person hears 100 songs and is influenced by them and it isn't plagiarism, then it isn't plagiarism when a machine does it.
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Are we really that surprised? I mean SciFi has predicted this.
And sadly, they watch/read a bunch of sci-fi, and they don't get that it's a commentary on society. They think it's a prediction on the future and nothing more.
If they'd invested in humanity they'd be richer They impoverished the societies they wish to rule over and invented half-baked mediocrity machines as the suits usually do when they control the creative process or any organization The missed potential is astronomical and tragic and they're poorer
When you have guys with a lot of money, but no real intelligence or any goodwill in those black holes where their hearts should be.
All these “new” tech bros thinks about money and power. Bring back the old tech bros who thinks about progressiveness and Star Wars. For the better, educated future.
Old tech with actual skills, ingenuity, the ones that were actually innovating useful stuff, vs the undeveloped human that got in solely for the money, with nothing significant to add.
Yes. Big skill gap in coding and in thoughtfulness of life.
Old tech bros would be nice, unless you're an artist or writer.
Once tech became lucrative it was invaded by finance bros who pretended to be tech bros. (The original tech people were not bros, but even as many of them had problems socializing with the dominant social interaction scripts.)
Cause they do not care about anything long term, only short term gains. Anything that takes more than 3 months to improve society whole or part is too long especially when they don't see automatic returns on their investments. The whole business world is based on this nonsense
Capitalism doesn't work for the good of humans, yet we embrace it fully as the best system, so afraid of socialism. The elite have convinced the 80% that socialism is bad because it's bad for the elite and great for the 80%. Excellent propaganda machine.
And there my friend is why government must tax the billionaires like everyone else and use that money for the good of the public.
The world funded them through the financial systems to get a hit on their accounts. We all are to blame , tbh, for putting profits over ethics
They might have funded such a thing, but they wouldn't have owned or controlled it afterwards. That makes the idea a nonstarter for them.
Control. That’s why they did it.
Because they think they're better than you -- so, you don't deserve it. That's the answer. It should be really clear by now.
Precisely. They have to believe that they're more intelligent than all of us, so when you tell them it's a bad idea, you just don't "get it," much like cinema snobs. They'll set the world on fire to prove it too, mainly because no one wants to have sex with them.
LoL
Hire annoying internet artists to manually crunch thousands upon thousands of spreadsheets worth of medical data and carry out statistical operations on them
If they paid their fair share of taxes we could fund public education. That's the way to improve society and advance our knowledge. , #Epstein #releasethefiles
Plagiarism machine is apropos. Well played.
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I teach research and writing. Chat has had a dreadful effect on our students. They use chat not just because it’s easier, but because they actually think chat sounds better than their writing. We are trying hard to convince them of the opposite. Chat has eroded trust and corrupted their voices.
Could've also solved world hunger. No seriously. Musk offered to pay if someone gave a solution. A team provided one. He said "nah" and gave money to his own personal charity.
They hate other humans, all there is to it.
TBF similar happened in dotcom bubble but the infrastructure and rock bottom prices for otherwise expensive hardware helped actual people with a clue start useful companies rather than eyeball seekers. Here's hoping
That has nothing to do with the fact that their "product" is garbage, produces garbage, and at best, it just steals and repeats.
So was much of dotcom pure garbage
That was original, man made garbage.
Nope there was a lot of uploading of copyright material illegally via P2P.
And that has exactly zero to do with anything. You're desperate to make AI slop seem normal.
No I'm not I think it is absolute crap and the fact its effectively nicking other people's wrk to produce worse versions says its crap. If you read what I wrote the Dotcom blow up of crap companies paved the way for something more useful. Hopefully the AI cack will die and we can properly use
Al the infrastructure left behind when it goes. Please read
You sure do know about the plagiarism because everything begins for God not politics or science
AI is just another mechanism for the transfer of wealth. Follow the money.
Well, we're part of a generation that whimpers instead of fights.
Good morning and cosign, Matthew. ✊💙
You don't become a billionaire by thinking about how your actions could benefit others.
They do *not* want to be outdone by the next generation of creatives. They are out of ideas, so they want to monopolize the ideas ecosystem.
Thank you for summarizing the situation so well and so compellingly
There are great uses for learning algorithms. It's very human to see new things as panaceas. "This new medicine will cure everything from cancer to warts!" etc. CEOs justify their worth with "Bold new initiatives" that raise stock prices. They don't care what happens after they're gone.
But they made a ton of crypto off Unca DonOld and made the South African immigrant richer... 😣😖😠
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It is obvious that these people who imagine a world built around science fiction have never actually READ any science fiction.
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They could have built systems to help the poor and oppressed. Instead, they create more poor and oppressed. But that's always the goal of Capitalism. Anyone saying otherwise has propaganda blinders on.
This is the same culture that says 'money is power'. And that's why some people having magnitudes of order more than other people is bad. They'll say "no Kings, no tyrants" then empower people to be kings and tyrants. They just don't want a political process to choose, only their own money.
Why teach a human to fish if you can sell them fish for that sweet sweet monthly recurring revenue
They had criminal mindsets from the start
Let's be clear here: The US does not equate to "human society" ... Therein is the problem with ALL of the USA "liberals": The assumption that their "opinions" are "THE BEST" is a show of narcissism and which is on par with Cheeto Head's mental masturbation. The USAs mental masturbation is just EPIC!
That's nice. How does it relate to the topic at hand?
They could have ended homelessness and hunger in the US. Think that would make a dent in crime?? If right wingers actually cared about the law, instead of just how they can get away with breaking the law, they'd spend their money on the homelessness problem.
But there’s ‘no profit’ in HELPING people!🙄
And the rich idiots need to pay for their DATA buildings and the electricity they use and are pushing increases onto the middle class as they are in Florida!
I think you addressed the primary issue. They have no imagination. That’s because they are completely and totally hollow inside.
They are trash who deserve to have their stolen wealth expropriated.
Or even just used their enormous wealth to solve boring everyday problems. If Zuckbot had used that $50 billion to fund food banks and house the homeless instead of building his stupid virtual Adtopia, HE WOULD ACTUALLY BE COOL.
Fron Chat Gpt A Stanford University study found that between late 2022 and mid-2025, employment among younger workers (age 22–25) in sectors exposed to AI—like customer service and software development—declined by 16%, highlighting significant early displacement in vulnerable groups
A Goldman Sachs analysis estimates AI could temporarily raise the U.S. unemployment rate by about 0.5 percentage points during the transition. Their baseline projection expects about 6–7% of jobs to be displaced, potentially reaching up to 14% under more aggressive adoption scenarios
Not even close to where this is going.
AI operations, especially training large language models, are extremely energy-intensive. For instance, training GPT-3 required about 1,287 MWh, emitting roughly 502 metric tons of CO₂, comparable to the annual emissions of 112 gasoline-powered cars
Future projections warn AI data centers may account for 8–35% of U.S. electricity use by 2030, significantly increasing demand for power—often still sourced from fossil fuels
AI’s environmental footprint extends beyond energy: data centers generate electronic waste, rely on rare earth mining, and consume vast quantities of water for cooling. Estimated AI-related water usage could reach between 4.2 and 6.6 billion cubic meters by 2027.
They weren’t getting paid to do good.
They grew up with dystopian sci fi and thought: cool, i want to be the guy at the top of that!
We get closer to SkyNet every day…
Proper structuring of intention leads to waste. They needed proper command.
They only want that golden age for themselves. We will be dead.
and governments and companies are shovelling money at these crappy bits of software like their 3rd homes depended on it.
I think AI is a fun area, but I feel that it might only be useful in compartmentalized blocks. I think it could be useful in areas of accounting 🤔 and dealing with numbers .
Creative areas like music and movies and art, etc. should be a no-no. That is more like stealing than gathering information.
I don't think AI can think outside of the box. How would it ever differentiate between true and false data ? Garbage in garbage out.
#BigEgosTinyDicks
But if we invest another trillion dollars it might one day cure cancer! Just put the trillion into cancer research.
But then how would Line Go Up? 🙄
Embarrassing 😎🤑🎯👋🏾🙌🏾😉
This is also the reason the right started attacking and undermining education. They started telling young people not to waste their time going to college and that English and other similar degrees were a waste of time. And look at who is controlling the writing now. AI, ChatGPT, etc.
👏Well said.
Human creativity has always been remix, reference, and recombination. My take: Holy hell, I have the equivalent of a Library of Alexandria + a team of tutors + an idea factory in my pocket. Let’s see what we can build.
Building a new golden age is not a zero-sum game, while profiting from the destruction of society is: sadly, many of the most ambitious people cannot enjoy winning without somebody losing.
"AI" isn't building a "new golden age."
“Creativity and knowledge”, where’s the money in that? But seriously, they’re hoarders. Treat them the same as the old lady with five thousand egg cartons.
They aren't even good at hoarding money. Behind the scenes, all those algos are actively burning their money making more losses than profits. Its why theyre so desperate to shove LLMs down everyones throat everywhere.
They hope quantity of consumers might even out those losses.
Honestly, the hard push on LLM’s looks to me like a super bubble that’s barely holding the floodgates of a tech collapse. Between the rush to embrace fascism, and the mad dance of building data centers everywhere, it’s clear the sector is no longer advancing and it’s now a game of musical chairs.
At a certain point the money hoards itself. They’re just sick, so they can’t think of anything else to do. LLM’s are like reorganizing the pile of cartons so it doesn’t collapse on you, while stacking it higher, knowing full well the place needs a fumigation. Just hoping the neighbors can’t see.
The old lady with 5000 egg cartons is a victim of herself. The billionaire makes us all their victims
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Yes, but she doesn’t have a cult like following of egg carton investors following her around telling her she’s a genius. She has county welfare visits and health department cleanouts. If we treated the billionaire like we do the hoarder, they’d be unable to victimize us all.
I see yet another iteration of reality TV. Hoarders: Billionaire Bros. Or maybe a competition between musk and the egg carton lady. I'll put my money on her. Because we don't have enough useless programming to watch while the world burns.
There will be a GameStop style egg carton stonks investor situation, and we’ll have to get our eggs in jars at the grocery.
When dragon hoards treasure….. that’s what we need to do. 😇
Time to Bilbo that shit!
Am on the Egg cartons side, whatever it is that is going on.
Always good to get in early.
Agreed! We need to take their hoarded money away and put the billionaires in mental institutions so they can learn how to interact with society in a healthy way
Your never going to be a billionaire with thinking like that. SAD. ;-)
Well said.
Absolutely.
Worth repeating.
They could have started with reducing the illiteracy and low reading level of Americans.
There’s the problem right there. Tech bros aren’t creative. They are literal. They don’t understand creativity.
Makes perfect sense when You Realize the tech bro Oligarchs W/Putin's gop's help are Behind this Coup.
I keep wondering if that’s why my city of San Francisco has so little federal intervention right now.
musky: "Creativity and knowledge is hard. I can just turn this knob and it becomes Mecha-hitler."
This is why you can't let wealth concentrate to that degree. It allows a small group of people to guide the economy to their whim, invest flooding into whatever fad interest they have at the expense of things society might need. It's obscene!
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Rationally and commonsensically, I hear you. But I can report that if you ever meet or work with these people, you will understand intuitively. It's not that their worldview is other than ours, but that their particular mental function yields their worldview. These are some other motherf*ckers.
This is such an accurate assessment. They literally live in a different world. They think their tiny corner of the Internet is the world.
What does the golden age of creativity and knowledge look like? I want to picture it, too.
If mankind wasn't so hung up on fame and fortune, and power and greed, and abuse of others, we might just have a decent civilization that's enlightened.
'mankind' is a bit broad, no? I mean, in my experience, most people are actually decent folks. Nobody that I know wants fame or is greedy. It's not mankind, but a select group of egomaniacs, psychopaths, sociopaths, capitalists, etc... that have the tools to brainwash and zombify other people.
If everyone you know has managed to dissociate from a society enmeshed, embedded, and birthed by racial capitalism & none of your friends, acquaintances, associates, co-workers, neighbors, etc are greedy or want fame, congratulations. (People are "greedy" these days bc poverty is a death sentence.)
Also, after some checking, this definition of civilization seems to be problematic: nerdfighteria.info/v/sYKSZE5m6kk/ 'What civ does not mean is healed femoral fractures. We know this because there are many, many examples of healed femoral fractures among humans who lived in non-civ societies'
FULL STOP ⚡️
This is what happens when a country stops caring about history, literature, and philosophy. The US is run by technically competent nincompoops whose imaginations froze in high school.
Because it was never about the thing they professed to be building. In the end it was always about being seen by the world as being cool. And when that inevitably failed, they turned on us.
Forget that you MIGHT have to read this URL on: The techlords intend to bring humanity to the brink of collapse and then, in a magic trick, rise to power, saving the species or themselves as the last specimens. skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl... My comment was: .
This itself is remarkable technology. Goes beyond human capability to keep abreast of Information. Unless curated or having the ability to curate somehow. Given the current STUPIDITY of human behavior at TOP power levels, and masses as SHEEP following, simple revolution, and G-machine is BEST.
THEY didn't. WE, the SHEEP fell into it. (About Tech billionaires, or Amazon say, #US-RABBLE Kindly imagine all 'facebook' groups posting a picnic, the icecream and grilled meat they are enjoying, KIDS running around. x100,000's & that's OUR TRASH out there. WE, the SHEEP made tham BILLIONAIRES.
You might CHANGE it in 6-mos... May be you can publicize the "SIT DOWN Sep-09 ". Was posted (yr) 250826 as 3-sets on "the WORDS -> PLAN -> ACTION ". See its up at shingla.wordpress.com/reason-why . Section after, on TEAMS LOCAL is useful too ( Never > 10, walk over, NO INTERNET, etc.)
A tale as old as time. youtu.be/QpWKBBDyiqo?...
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Because all they care about is building their OWN wealth and power. Not that of others
I understand it. They want to kill or enslave us all in pursuit of some childish dream of infinite wealth immortality, the latter of which is a selfish and stupid pursuit of which they have spent a lot of time and money convincing themselves is the most ethical act they could possibly engage in.
Because it's about power and control and the theft of all of our data. We have no data rights outside of HIPAA and even doctors are violating that by using AI now. AI will destroy everything if we don't stop it now.
People didn’t lose their creativity when the wheel was invented. They were just like, “wow! Now I can do this moving thing quicker and I can do this OTHER thing I wanted to do instead!” Some would say they became more creative as a result. 🤷♀️
Creativity means having original thoughts to bring new perspective from unique experience not a stolen scraped slop of what could only at best be an average medocrity. But let's be real, a hallucinating chat bot of stolen ideas would be embarrassing to take seriously.
Well said!
And then those tech bros set about destroying democracy.
While accelerating the planet’s destruction , poisoning working people’s air water land & property values while operating with massive tax abatements and contributing NOTHING to infrastructures the overtax.
