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.
Reuters?
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
I feel like there’s a difference between alcohol and drugs, something people can make in their back yard and AI which requires a first world country’s entire economy to be oriented towards it to function… a difference in what we should be required to accept.
I don’t buy the general argument about shame either. We teach children to shit in toilets and not sidewalks. I see rampant AI use as just another form of disgusting public indecency and the faster we bring shame in to remedy it the better.
It seems vaguely AI flavored to me inasmuch as it’s using contrasts too much (it’s not x it’s y) and it’s way too verbose. Also it’s obviously wrong at least in my experience, middle managers aren’t the sparrows, individual contributors (especially juniors) are.
Maybe that’s just a symptom of a person reading too much AI text and thinking a good tweet would make a great substack.
I’d love to see it tested in court but I’m not gonna be the test case. GitHub won’t touch it because the ‘AI output is worthless’ angle is bad news for MS.
So you’re sure you Claude wasn’t trained on wordpress?
Unfortunately FOSS is basically dead because nobody is enforcing licenses against training.
The software industry is experiencing a huge collective AI psychosis.
piece he keeps equivocating between local LLMs and their behemoth online counterparts with their heavily proprietary tooling that occasionally wraps them into a somewhat useful product.
This is fundamental to his approach. He believes that technology is inherently liberatory as long as it’s in the hands of the consumer.
even if like Doctorow you think that their rape and pillage of artist’s rights and intellectual property in general isn’t an especially big deal.
It’s not that he doesn’t think it’s a big deal. It’s the one thing he’s most consistently cared about for most of his career as an activist. He’s willing to put up with anything else if it circumvents copyright. And that’s why he’s been consistently pushed, I reckon, despite his nominal hostility towards the hands that feed the media ecosystem he flourishes in.
One of my superiors at work calls it “he.”
Aella showed up.