in a nation that has been quietly cultivating a culture of heroic violence for decades we shouldn’t be surprised to see people trying to inflict that fear and rage upon the outside world.
Nay a culture where every citizen is entitled to one armed crashout and threats of such have been an important lever used by the party that believes in that entitlement for decades.
His substack reads like LW.
feel like the analogy to the drug trade is still pretty relevant given the violence and predation that the black market pretty much inevitably attracts and sustains. Like, maybe you know a guy who has his own grow op or whatever, but cocaine and heroin money is going through the cartels at some point in the chain and they’re going to use some portion of it for bullets that end up in some journalist’s kids or something.
I lost something in my brevity but my point was the question of how practical stopping a practice is. Alcohol is a ruinous force for bad at every level of society from homeless to Hegseth but a ban won't work because it literally cannot be enforced, we tried, it failed. It's made by yeast! AI on the other hand is only sustained at great expense by a delicate chain of high tech, high energy systems. It's a choice.
While I don’t think we should allow slop to invest every forum any more than addicts should be allowed to shoot up on every corner, I think that if shaming makes people less likely to acknowledge that they’re going down a dead-end road and reach out to their communities and support networks for help addressing the root of what drove them to these maladaptive antisolutions in the first place then shaming is making things worse, not better.
The pendulum is so far on the other side that I can't even entertain the analogy of AI users being poor harried addicts hiding their use. My boss tells me to use more AI every day. I hate it and I want everyone to hate it. The emotion I want people to associate with it is disgust. Disgust is a powerful emotion, and it dehumanizes those it is associated with.
If they understand that AI is like germs I do not care if sometimes people eat food off the floor following the ten second rule. But we aren't even there yet, people think it's like gold or mana from heaven or something.
I would once again like to gloat that I called it.
After the first copycat maybe some calls got made /tinfoil
Which is both the original transhumanist cope to enable so-called consciousness upload so it’s not just copying a simulacrum of your personality to a computer while you continue to rot away
Often-missed point btw.
Kalanick now runs a robotics startup; in his free time, he said recently, he uses OpenAI’s ChatGPT “to get to the edge of what’s known in quantum physics.
When I read that I assumed they included it for color to make him sound insane.
If tokens ever become expensive people are gonna start using these to code until they get shut down.
I need to find an entirely new profession, everyone in software now is fucking deranged.
Mood
Aella showed up.