call me a braggart, but should the internet “go away” it will be the NO longer ignored GenXers that will show you the way! WE HAD… rotary phones, WITH cords, 3-network channels (if lucky! - 1.5 at g’ma’s milan, pa farm) maybe 4 (at most?) UHF channels (17, 29, 48- in philly), vehicles, that were smaller, f*k cameras, YOU check the mirrors (NOT the - beep beep!) YOU roll down YOUR window, you insert a key (on a door AND to start)
The grand world-changing benefits of Gen AI are speculative, uncertain, and many years out. The pain and the bullshit, on the other hand, which AI is threatening against creatives, office workers, educators, the climate, lonely men, and more is real and immediate. The Tech sociopaths are trying to sell you a utopian future while they furiously attempt to automate your career out of existence and destroy life & liberty by selling AI murder tech to the military and AI surveillance tech to DHS.
Saw The AI Doc today. The more I learn about AI the more I think we are running a Schrödinger's box experiment and hoping that AGI results in a live cat.
AI does not think or want, it merely applies statistical rules to make guesses. So, the apocolypse will result only if AI is put in control of things that it cannot deal with due to being outside of statistics.
@bakeraus correct. There's a price on our heads. Whether prisons, schools, or hospitals- and then our time in the way of labor. They're juicing us from birth to death
"Most people are not interested in human flourishing" - I agree. Figuring how to flourish and live a meaningful life has always been a challenge, but now it takes serious determination and effort to fight the enshittification of your own life and that of family and friends: the smartphone that takes huge bites out of your day, the shear, toxic dumbness of social media, the burial of facts in a sea of disinformation and conspiracy. To all this we can now add AI, which may produce some good outcomes, but as an average person all I see so far are the horrors that are here now with worse to come. Sure, maybe AI will cure cancer sometime in the future, but right now its most prevalent use in medicine is to maximize billing codes for the insurance companies and make health care less affordable for everyone.
I’m 63 years old and have practiced family law in a small Southern city for over 30 years. During that time, I have typically been an early adopter (at least among my peer) to emerging technologies while seeing my older peer lose a step by not adapting. AI both bemuses and terrifies me.
With AI, I’ve become the old non-adaptor. I regularly see my younger peer getting in trouble using AI. At least for the practice of law, AI generates too many hallucinations to be useful. It’s a misperception that law requires 100% accuracy. Each step in getting from 90% to 99% to 99.9% to 99.99% accuracy bumps time expenditure up by a factor of 10 and approaching 100% accuracy quickly becomes cost prohibitive. But, 90% accuracy in legal research and analysis is malpractice and accuracy below 99% is rarely tolerable. So far, AI isn’t approaching 90% accuracy in legal research and analysis.
I was one of the few people to see Mike Judge’s Idiocracy in a theater upon its initial release and recall it being very disappointed compared to Office Space—which seemed like a documentary about my cubicle-dwelling finance first post-college job. Now it seems remarkably prescient. I expect AI will tear society apart with its deep fakes and malignancy before it renders my legal research and analysis skills obsolete. At my age, my big hope is that I die before society devolves into a feral dystopia. As for my two young-adult daughters, I feel very sorry for the future I have bequeathed them. I would be terrified for my grandchildren’s future if I expected to have any. My daughters appear to be (rationally) concluding that this is not a world where the future is sufficiently hopeful to render childbearing an ethical option.
As noted above, I have been an early adopter to technology among my lawyer peers. In 1995 I was an early user of the World Wide Web. One early use was to obtain and read a South African Supreme Court opinion finding the death penalty to be unconstitutional and turning that into an article for a South Carolina newspaper contrasting South Africa’s use of the death penalty to America (where, under the leadership of a Democratic president, we had just expanded the death penalty). Before the web it would have been extremely difficult to obtain a South African court opinion. Now it was free and I didn’t even have to put clothes on to obtain it. One insight was that the web would be a tool to make knowledge and information widely and freely available. Thirty years later, the internet seems primarily used for shopping, porn, and Tik Tok/You Tube videos—although this old mostly uses it to read, research, and write. As this week’s social media lawsuit shows, the internet has become toxic to human flourishing. Why would AI’s evolution be better?
In small doses humans are brave, generous, and capable of inspiring feats of empathy and selflessness. In large doses, we are malignant. Nothing I know about humanity’s capacity for avarice and hatred makes me think AI will be used for primarily for good.
AI Whistleblower: We Are Being Gaslit By The AI Companies! They’re Hiding The Truth About AI!
Karen Hao is an AI expert, award-winning investigative journalist, and former reporter for The Wall Street Journal covering American and Chinese tech companies. She is also co-host of the podcast The Interface and freelances for publications like More Perfect Union and The Atlantic. Her latest book is the bestselling ‘EMPIRE OF AI: Inside The Reckless Race For Total Domination.’
AI will give birth to the perfect soulless sociopathic entity, an exquisite collective likeness of the tech moguls that fund it, a god created in their own image, foisted upon us all. Resistance is Futile. Relax — you’ve already been assimilated.
Streaming, scrolling, the internet is our wilderness. The wilderness can be described as desert, plain, forest or even a great expanse of water that limits one’s view and narrows one’s consciousness. The natural human state is to wander in the wilderness for long periods of time (or 40 years, as the Hebrew/Christian texts describe it) wherever and whatever and however the age may present itself. All individuals that have wandered out of the wilderness and established civilizations encompassing great amounts of disparate peoples economically and geographically (Egyptian, Babylonian, Roman, Mongolian, Mayan, etc.) eventually collapsed under the weight of their knowledge and stupidity. We will be no different. I believe that humans function best in smaller isolated numbers. When we don’t know who our neighbor truly is, we have no reason to care how or why they exist. This is the blessing and the curse of social media.
call me a braggart, but should the internet “go away” it will be the NO longer ignored GenXers that will show you the way! WE HAD… rotary phones, WITH cords, 3-network channels (if lucky! - 1.5 at g’ma’s milan, pa farm) maybe 4 (at most?) UHF channels (17, 29, 48- in philly), vehicles, that were smaller, f*k cameras, YOU check the mirrors (NOT the - beep beep!) YOU roll down YOUR window, you insert a key (on a door AND to start)
The grand world-changing benefits of Gen AI are speculative, uncertain, and many years out. The pain and the bullshit, on the other hand, which AI is threatening against creatives, office workers, educators, the climate, lonely men, and more is real and immediate. The Tech sociopaths are trying to sell you a utopian future while they furiously attempt to automate your career out of existence and destroy life & liberty by selling AI murder tech to the military and AI surveillance tech to DHS.
Saw The AI Doc today. The more I learn about AI the more I think we are running a Schrödinger's box experiment and hoping that AGI results in a live cat.
AI does not think or want, it merely applies statistical rules to make guesses. So, the apocolypse will result only if AI is put in control of things that it cannot deal with due to being outside of statistics.
And the people always say they are worried about the children, but I am more worried about the adults.
And how come we can’t like a piece on the app? That way you could say ‘See, JVL! Content!’ But maybe you can just say Claude estimated 500+ likes.
Thanks for the AI update. Leaning doom. But maybe we’ll still have snacks.
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2 days ago
Hopfully helps in a nutshell: AI is based on greed, but human intelligence based on equilibrium seeking. Please process it well!
1 day ago
@bakeraus correct. There's a price on our heads. Whether prisons, schools, or hospitals- and then our time in the way of labor. They're juicing us from birth to death
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"Most people are not interested in human flourishing" - I agree. Figuring how to flourish and live a meaningful life has always been a challenge, but now it takes serious determination and effort to fight the enshittification of your own life and that of family and friends: the smartphone that takes huge bites out of your day, the shear, toxic dumbness of social media, the burial of facts in a sea of disinformation and conspiracy. To all this we can now add AI, which may produce some good outcomes, but as an average person all I see so far are the horrors that are here now with worse to come. Sure, maybe AI will cure cancer sometime in the future, but right now its most prevalent use in medicine is to maximize billing codes for the insurance companies and make health care less affordable for everyone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-8TDOFqkQA
Exposing The Dark Side of America's AI Data Center Explosion | View From Above | Business Insider
Yes, indeed!
I’m 63 years old and have practiced family law in a small Southern city for over 30 years. During that time, I have typically been an early adopter (at least among my peer) to emerging technologies while seeing my older peer lose a step by not adapting. AI both bemuses and terrifies me.
With AI, I’ve become the old non-adaptor. I regularly see my younger peer getting in trouble using AI. At least for the practice of law, AI generates too many hallucinations to be useful. It’s a misperception that law requires 100% accuracy. Each step in getting from 90% to 99% to 99.9% to 99.99% accuracy bumps time expenditure up by a factor of 10 and approaching 100% accuracy quickly becomes cost prohibitive. But, 90% accuracy in legal research and analysis is malpractice and accuracy below 99% is rarely tolerable. So far, AI isn’t approaching 90% accuracy in legal research and analysis.
I was one of the few people to see Mike Judge’s Idiocracy in a theater upon its initial release and recall it being very disappointed compared to Office Space—which seemed like a documentary about my cubicle-dwelling finance first post-college job. Now it seems remarkably prescient. I expect AI will tear society apart with its deep fakes and malignancy before it renders my legal research and analysis skills obsolete. At my age, my big hope is that I die before society devolves into a feral dystopia. As for my two young-adult daughters, I feel very sorry for the future I have bequeathed them. I would be terrified for my grandchildren’s future if I expected to have any. My daughters appear to be (rationally) concluding that this is not a world where the future is sufficiently hopeful to render childbearing an ethical option.
As noted above, I have been an early adopter to technology among my lawyer peers. In 1995 I was an early user of the World Wide Web. One early use was to obtain and read a South African Supreme Court opinion finding the death penalty to be unconstitutional and turning that into an article for a South Carolina newspaper contrasting South Africa’s use of the death penalty to America (where, under the leadership of a Democratic president, we had just expanded the death penalty). Before the web it would have been extremely difficult to obtain a South African court opinion. Now it was free and I didn’t even have to put clothes on to obtain it. One insight was that the web would be a tool to make knowledge and information widely and freely available. Thirty years later, the internet seems primarily used for shopping, porn, and Tik Tok/You Tube videos—although this old mostly uses it to read, research, and write. As this week’s social media lawsuit shows, the internet has become toxic to human flourishing. Why would AI’s evolution be better?
In small doses humans are brave, generous, and capable of inspiring feats of empathy and selflessness. In large doses, we are malignant. Nothing I know about humanity’s capacity for avarice and hatred makes me think AI will be used for primarily for good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn8HBj8QAbk
AI Whistleblower: We Are Being Gaslit By The AI Companies! They’re Hiding The Truth About AI!
Karen Hao is an AI expert, award-winning investigative journalist, and former reporter for The Wall Street Journal covering American and Chinese tech companies. She is also co-host of the podcast The Interface and freelances for publications like More Perfect Union and The Atlantic. Her latest book is the bestselling ‘EMPIRE OF AI: Inside The Reckless Race For Total Domination.’
Brilliant take on both!
AI will give birth to the perfect soulless sociopathic entity, an exquisite collective likeness of the tech moguls that fund it, a god created in their own image, foisted upon us all. Resistance is Futile. Relax — you’ve already been assimilated.
Streaming, scrolling, the internet is our wilderness. The wilderness can be described as desert, plain, forest or even a great expanse of water that limits one’s view and narrows one’s consciousness. The natural human state is to wander in the wilderness for long periods of time (or 40 years, as the Hebrew/Christian texts describe it) wherever and whatever and however the age may present itself. All individuals that have wandered out of the wilderness and established civilizations encompassing great amounts of disparate peoples economically and geographically (Egyptian, Babylonian, Roman, Mongolian, Mayan, etc.) eventually collapsed under the weight of their knowledge and stupidity. We will be no different. I believe that humans function best in smaller isolated numbers. When we don’t know who our neighbor truly is, we have no reason to care how or why they exist. This is the blessing and the curse of social media.