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It's industrial revolution which doesn't want to happen. Unless the new industrial revolution means those unwilling to attend to billionaires and oligarchs are to be priced out of housing and life in general, this one is swiftly approaching. I mean forget housing, even getting good computer is out of reach by now.
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You're not wrong. It's almost a religious fervor. And much like so many religious figures, you get a sort of Rorschach test on how you use/view it. Is it a tool? Is it going to make humans obsolete? Doesn't matter because if you don't praise and adore AI the [market|capital] will leave you behind. It's pervasive as fuck. I go into stores with local artists and can't help but think what of this was made with AI. It dr…
In this new age, getting any kind of enjoyment from something digital just feels icky now.
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Imo there's a priority you should have for the generation below you. Just like how you clean up for your next week's self, you clean up for the next generation. Make sure you don't leave the world on fire before you dip. Two generations have failed at this, now's your chance to break the streak. But maybe I'm just a hippie, who knows.
I see AI exactly as what will help future generations, the possibilities it provides in terms of learning, research, analysis are huge. It confusing to me how people complain about jobs - there is no guarantee that any job will be there forever, there is no guarantee that current social and economic model will be there forever, things always change, you have to adapt, there is no other way.
I do not see how is that supposed to be a vision that would help them. Why would you learn when you cant get a job, cant do research and are not worthy of doing analysis? In this vision, all of that will be like playing piano nowadays - nice wholesome but useless hobby.
I dont think the future has to happen that way necessarily, but I also do not see anyone trying to sell happy ai future for the average person. Schmidt was not selling them a happy future vision either. He was trying to convince them to accept the ugly one.
Colossal failure to read the room, insane coming from an executive in charge of one of the most impactful companies of our lifetime.
I guess you haven't heard much from executives before? They are absolutely coocoo-bananas people.
Kind of goes to show how out of touch and insular the tech exec sphere can be. Almost everyone I interact with in reality has a deep distain for LLMs and their touted trajectory.
Idk what people you interact with, but my personal sample of “normal people” post AI generated pics and videos in their WhatsApp status and adorn their homes with AI generated imagery for christmas. They may not actively use LLMs or even know what they are, but they’re satisfied with Google’s AI overview and they love using voice assistants. These aren’t people from any particular sphere I sought out or which self-se…
They might not know that those assets are AI-generated. It's easy to not know if you don't have this stuff (somehow) constantly shoved into your face.
I had a sticker on my water bottle from a brewery for several days. Just last night did I realize that it was completely AI-generated. The design was just text. Anyone could've made it with any other application, and yet, they chose to use AI to do it. The font was a typical font used by AI, and the hero text had low-res dots on it, a tell-tale for one-shot AI art. I threw it away.
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Where? Those AI utopias they proclaim don’t fit with capitalism.
This is the most confusing thing to me. If AI works, capitalism is dead and kept on life support via UBI or dead and replaced by communism. So why billionaires are pushing it, when it will erase them from existence if it is working. And no, private army or some bunker on Hawaii is not going to save them
I guess that’s the point where they disagree. Bad for all when they find out the truth
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What if they take your jobs for a fraction of your worth, and drive up the cost of living, while extracting massive subsidies from your taxes? You love the people who destroy your quality of life? For the record, I love real diversity, I grew up in home where we have exchange students from abroad (to help pay the bills), but in Canada, the last 10 years or so has soured my opinion because my standard of living has de…
I get your frustrations, but maybe the root of those issues is more complicated than "the outsiders". Sadly I got nothing more to contribute. Good luck.
But a part of the government is also staffed by "the outsiders", who then further exploit the government in favour of "the outsiders".
But you are right, I haven't allocated the blame to the activists and moronic voters (boomers, who saw the plan as a great way to juice their retirements) who went along with the plan.
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how much do of a redditor do you have to be to give a muted-to-negative response to your parents gifting you AI-generated art of your pet lol
It's on the same level as giving someone like, a box of chapsticks you picked up at Walgreens on the way over for Christmas dinner. No effort or thought, not really worth anyone's time, the giftee's or the gifter's.
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Yeah, he's wicked rapey and he's always been a total manwhore creep. How the heck did he survive #metoo unscathed? And I know, I know, here are the helpful links before anyone pretends they haven't heard any of this... https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/judge-sends-former-googl... https://www.gawkerarchives.com/5497193/exclusive-how-googles... https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2015/3/16/8227625/eric-schmidt... TLDR: pro…
Rich sex pests engaged in a coordinated effort to destroy #metoo and protect themselves basically as soon as the movement started. You can even see a lot of this in the Epstein files. The backlash to #metoo was larger than the movement ever was (while not referring to the same event, Susan Faludi's Backlash is a great discussion of this). The effect is that a ton of these guys either experienced no consequence whatso…
Oh noze, triggered again. Bite me.
Typical Schmidt shit: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/trustedsecurityadvisor_ai-wil...
Vacuous plutocrats can be pretty vacuous...
Who can ever forget "Google decided that work-life balance and going home early and working from home was more important than winning."
Why god why do you take this guy seriously at this point?
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What kind of sacrifice are you imagine the students to do here? And also, that generation got quite a few students who did sacrificed their future in protests just a few years ago. The crackdown was very real and is still ongoing.
I have zero opinion about the state of the world. I'm just making an observation. Awareness of issues only gets you so far. But it factors into daily decisions. And when it's all too much to bear, we just push it out of mind and continue with our little sphere of influence. Society is built up this way: everyone has their own little sphere of influence. Money and power have much larger spheres. So you either protest…
From that point of view, your stance seems more like a theory/ideology you project on the world rather then an observation.