A secret question hovers over us, a sense of disappointment, a broken promise we were given as children about what our adult world was supposed to be like. I am referring not to the standard false…
The only way to convince America to switch to renewables will be making a corporation with the stated goal of replacing the entire grid system with lightning kites that collect power from thunderstorms and calling it FreedomPower. Put a cartoon Ben Franklin in all the ads and it will work.
AI is impossible. like one individual cockroach is smarter than the best computers in the entire world. It's all a scam to rope in money from nerds who think sci fi is real
Mate.. have you listened to/read the Ian Wright talk on capital as a living god? (here
It’s pretty tangential but any talk of controls or feedback in data processing, and my mind jumps to it. I find it super interesting at least, and I feel like you might enjoy it
A lot of AI is just capitalist attempts at worker replacement. Notice how few of them say "will make work better" and how many of them say "will make work obsolete"
Yeah, capitalists have been obsessed with automation as long as they’ve existed. Sounds like we both agree that it should be focused on making work better.
I saw an old ad from the 80’s for an IBM home computer that really surprised me. It’s pitch was that it would save you a huge amount of time that you could then spend with your family instead of working.
Like one individual cockroach is smarter than the best computers in the entire world.
What’s your definition of smarter? I’ve never seen a cockroach play chess, generate art, or calculate the likelihood of financial fraud on transactions.
lmbo, AI is 10% matrix multiplication and 90% exploiting the global south for slave waged piecework "training the model".
Electricity is just magnets spinning around a coil of copper wire.
Technology has not progressed since Benjamin Franklen. We’ve been stagnant since 1776.
The only way to convince America to switch to renewables will be making a corporation with the stated goal of replacing the entire grid system with lightning kites that collect power from thunderstorms and calling it FreedomPower. Put a cartoon Ben Franklin in all the ads and it will work.
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Well yes. AI is just a tool. It is no different than a lathe or a loom. The only thing that matters is who controls it and for what ends.
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I think 10% is being a bit generous.
Something something This Machine Kills episode about Potemkin AI.
AI is impossible. like one individual cockroach is smarter than the best computers in the entire world. It's all a scam to rope in money from nerds who think sci fi is real
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Mate.. have you listened to/read the Ian Wright talk on capital as a living god? (here
It’s pretty tangential but any talk of controls or feedback in data processing, and my mind jumps to it. I find it super interesting at least, and I feel like you might enjoy it
If/then still outperforms their most advanced AI. 90% of AI startups just end up hiring humans in secret.
At doing what? ai is a type of tool. As it stands right now, it augments what humans can do.
That's all fine and good but often the AI are built to work on their own rather than alongside us, and are impossible to work with as a result.
How do you mean? I agree that they work best when designed with augmentation vs replacement in mind.
A lot of AI is just capitalist attempts at worker replacement. Notice how few of them say "will make work better" and how many of them say "will make work obsolete"
Yeah, capitalists have been obsessed with automation as long as they’ve existed. Sounds like we both agree that it should be focused on making work better.
I saw an old ad from the 80’s for an IBM home computer that really surprised me. It’s pitch was that it would save you a huge amount of time that you could then spend with your family instead of working.
What’s your definition of smarter? I’ve never seen a cockroach play chess, generate art, or calculate the likelihood of financial fraud on transactions.
Do you have any sources about this? I’d love to read up on it.