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
I agree. Buying click farms and workshopping influencing strategies is already something the right does.
What we've seen in drone warfare is exactly what you're talking about, the moral disconnect between the war machine and the acts of terror it commits.
To draw another equivalent, it's not like millions of people didn't die before machine guns were invented. The machine gun/drone just lowers the cost of doing something you were already doing. Strategies for countering the new thing already exist, they just need to be repurposed (like trench warfare wasn't a new invention in WW1, what was new was the strategy of "sieging" machine gun posts as though they were on a star fort).
I agree. Buying click farms and workshopping influencing strategies is already something the right does.
What we've seen in drone warfare is exactly what you're talking about, the moral disconnect between the war machine and the acts of terror it commits.
To draw another equivalent, it's not like millions of people didn't die before machine guns were invented. The machine gun/drone just lowers the cost of doing something you were already doing. Strategies for countering the new thing already exist, they just need to be repurposed (like trench warfare wasn't a new invention in WW1, what was new was the strategy of "sieging" machine gun posts as though they were on a star fort).