Tech FUCK AI

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  1. Rastapopoulos

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    Certainly those things reduce the number of humans needed, same as robots.

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    Nobody's going to scale back AI. We need to be working hard to expand every available clean energy source possible.

    Wind, solar, geothermal, fission, and of course fusion.
     
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    No. Fuck AI, and honestly fuck anyone who uses it on purpose. If you use it, fuck you man.
     
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    There is no avoiding it, unfortunately. Anybody who doesn't learn it and use it will be left behind. They'll no longer be competitive.

    Even if a country outlaws it, other countries will pass them by.

    There is no putting that cat back in the bag.
     
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    These People Believe They Made AI Sentient

     
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    This would be true if using AI made anything better than just paying someone to do it. But AI is a net negative on efficiency and cost effectiveness in businesses. So no. No it is not inevitable; you just want AI to happen.
     
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    AI is inevitable. Like Thanos.
     
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    I don't have any preference on AI, unless it makes things better. But, it will absolutely make things better if it keeps improving the way it has been.

    It is going to do things that the vast majority of people can't or don't want to do. And it will do them better than most people can do.

    As such, AI could eliminate scarcity.

    The question is if we will make sure everyone can benefit from those immense gains.

    I am certain that the wealthy will not want that. They will want to consolidate the benefit amongst themselves.

    Should we allow AI?
    How much are we going to charge for AI?
    Could we even stop it if we wanted to?

    These aren't the questions we should be asking, IMO.

    The question we should be asking is:
    Are we going to allow the wealthy to continue holding us down?
     
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