We need to start treating AI development, and its potential impact on the possibility of a humane world, as seriously as we treat climate change. I’m not even talking about existential risk or far-flung, distantly possible applications. I am talking about things that are coming in the next half-decade. I’m talking about stuff that’s technically already possible but is still in the implementation phase.

My summary: we need to democratize all powerful institutions like yesterday. Seriously y'all we're running out of time

        • Ideology [she/her]
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          3 years ago

          But to be real, proof of humanity just means being less lazy than the opposition. The strategies they use are always going to cost them money, so the goal should be to make the venture of mimicking a leftist cost prohibitive. Like, for example, look at how little the state spends on foodbanks and community building and helping the homeless. If they have to do that sort of thing to fit in with leftists then they'd have to chart out a whole cost-benefit analysis of "how many manhours are we willing to dedicate to finish this infiltration project." Just having an ideology and that being the beginning and end of it is way easier to mimick for both robots and human cops.