That line of thinking is directly leading to “you cannot say anything any more” and “facts before feelings”, and before you know it, you confuse some loud people disliking your edgy opinions with you and your “facts” being oppressed. It’s human interaction, get over it, stop being butthurt and either engage in constructive discussion, willing to occasionally accept being wrong, or block and move on. Most of us live in a world where we have more freedom of speech than most of recorded history. Stop perpetuating that bullshit play by people who hate people haveing civil discussions, because they profit from screaming matches and endless polarization. Someone disagreeing with you, even someone calling you an idiot, is just exercising their free speech, same as you do.
With that out of the way, several things can be true at once: intelligence and reasoning can be ill-defined terms, an LLM can be able to match inputs to outputs with impressive accuracy, it can have an internal model of the world that is very weird and surprisingly lacking, and it can be a dangerous technology for humanity. Does that make it intelligent? Probably, for some definition of intelligence. But I am still much more worried about people with/behind AI than about AI itself. I’m not afraid of a gun, I am afraid of an egoisitic moron with a gun.
and before you know it, you confuse some loud people disliking your edgy opinions with you and your “facts” being oppressed
I agree with your other points but you’re definitely wrong on this. Facts are definitely oppressed today. Objective, verifiable historical facts are “not allowed” to be mentioned, and it has cost people their job.
And I do believe that is something that we’ve been trained to do now. Mention you just used AI with the wrong people and you’re out. A moral absolutism based on disinformation and refutable arguments. The “MAGAtization” of the left if you will. Or in case of AI it creates a deep moralistic divide with tech nerds.
It could either be accidental (engagement is good for profit) or part of a strategy (divide and conquer). But as a society we’ve lost the ability to even talk about certain very important things without walking on eggshells.
Mention you just used AI with the wrong people and you’re out
So, there are people who think you are a bad person for supporting large companies with fascist owners that sell you a product that makes you unlearn critical thinking, steals your data and also destroys the environment in new and funny ways?
Yeah, that sounds like a reasonable opinion to me, to be honest. Of course, you are free to disagree, but I would like to use what is left of my free speech to call AI supporters morons. I am also deeply against people who make cluster munitions to be dropped on middle-eastern hospitals, or who work in surveillance capitalism.
That’s just me having an opinion, and I will not give up my core values because of some hypothetical unity. That is how we end up with the US Democrats being the “left” party. People like Clinton or Pelosi have tend to use arguments to silence critics, and it didn’t work out well for the US left. The enemy of my enemy is my ally, not my friend.
That line of thinking is directly leading to “you cannot say anything any more” and “facts before feelings”, and before you know it, you confuse some loud people disliking your edgy opinions with you and your “facts” being oppressed. It’s human interaction, get over it, stop being butthurt and either engage in constructive discussion, willing to occasionally accept being wrong, or block and move on. Most of us live in a world where we have more freedom of speech than most of recorded history. Stop perpetuating that bullshit play by people who hate people haveing civil discussions, because they profit from screaming matches and endless polarization. Someone disagreeing with you, even someone calling you an idiot, is just exercising their free speech, same as you do.
With that out of the way, several things can be true at once: intelligence and reasoning can be ill-defined terms, an LLM can be able to match inputs to outputs with impressive accuracy, it can have an internal model of the world that is very weird and surprisingly lacking, and it can be a dangerous technology for humanity. Does that make it intelligent? Probably, for some definition of intelligence. But I am still much more worried about people with/behind AI than about AI itself. I’m not afraid of a gun, I am afraid of an egoisitic moron with a gun.
I agree with your other points but you’re definitely wrong on this. Facts are definitely oppressed today. Objective, verifiable historical facts are “not allowed” to be mentioned, and it has cost people their job.
And I do believe that is something that we’ve been trained to do now. Mention you just used AI with the wrong people and you’re out. A moral absolutism based on disinformation and refutable arguments. The “MAGAtization” of the left if you will. Or in case of AI it creates a deep moralistic divide with tech nerds.
It could either be accidental (engagement is good for profit) or part of a strategy (divide and conquer). But as a society we’ve lost the ability to even talk about certain very important things without walking on eggshells.
And yeah most of this is speculation.
So, there are people who think you are a bad person for supporting large companies with fascist owners that sell you a product that makes you unlearn critical thinking, steals your data and also destroys the environment in new and funny ways?
Yeah, that sounds like a reasonable opinion to me, to be honest. Of course, you are free to disagree, but I would like to use what is left of my free speech to call AI supporters morons. I am also deeply against people who make cluster munitions to be dropped on middle-eastern hospitals, or who work in surveillance capitalism.
That’s just me having an opinion, and I will not give up my core values because of some hypothetical unity. That is how we end up with the US Democrats being the “left” party. People like Clinton or Pelosi have tend to use arguments to silence critics, and it didn’t work out well for the US left. The enemy of my enemy is my ally, not my friend.
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