AI First: How the Federal Government Is Prioritizing AI over People and Planet
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AI First: How the Federal Government Is Prioritizing AI over People and Planet
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#2And it's not the only thing being prioritized over people and planet, although it's related to ongoing promotion of fossil fuels and wars, along with increased political propaganda.
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#4The optimist in me sees AI as a path to fusion thus having the energy to undo at least some of the damage done via co2 sequestration etc.
The pessimist in me sees every other outcome
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#5"We believe that AI’s emergence shows the potential for state capacity to be oriented toward a different mission that centers the ambitious creation of socially useful green infrastructure like clean energy, healthy schools, libraries, social housing, and public transit."
The basic problem that left leaning politics are refusing to address is that the above were radical propositions. Schools, libraries, social housing, public transit, were all things that were fundamentally subversive, technologically revolutionary, and disruptive.
The failure here is that the technological revolutions since should have been a wake-up call for the progressive/liberal/left leaning politics to update priors, but instead there's a conservatism that has ingrained itself as a reaction to the technological revolutions since. The left leaning politics of today remains the same politics of the 19th and 20th century with the same rhetoric and discourse. It's frozen in time, and wants to conserve the politics of that era.
What would a left liberal politics look like if it were updated with the technological fundamentals of today?
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#6The optimist in me sees AI as a path to fusion thus having the energy to undo at least some of the damage done via co2 sequestration etc. The pessimist in me sees every other outcome
How exactly is AI a "path to fusion"?
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#7The federal government believes that the US will be locked out of the future forever if we are not first, or at least at parity, on AI with adversaries. They believe it is not a normal technology, but a singularly important one which will define national capacity.
The federal government believes that if China achieves AI dominance and we are not competitive on either the industrial or cognitive stacks, the people and planet will be at the whim of China and will not do better anyway (and come on — look at how China's fishing fleets treat the parts of the world they have unrestricted access to).
You can disbelieve it, but that is a perfectly valid thesis.
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#8The optimist in me sees AI as a path to fusion thus having the energy to undo at least some of the damage done via co2 sequestration etc. The pessimist in me sees every other outcome
There is a somewhat of organic path to it. Keeping the feelings of optimism or pessimism aside, destruction is a part of any cycle. The good thing is, there is this inherent self sustaining nature of the species and it would use the second opportunity better after such an event.
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#9"We believe that AI’s emergence shows the potential for state capacity to be oriented toward a different mission that centers the ambitious creation of socially useful green infrastructure like clean energy, healthy schools, libraries, social housing, and public transit." The basic problem that left leaning politics are refusing to address is that the above were radical propositions. Schools, libraries, social housin…
> "The basic problem that left leaning politics are refusing to address is that the above were radical propositions. Schools, libraries, social housing, public transit, were all things that were fundamentally subversive.."
Subversive to what? A winner-take-all, might-makes-right feudal mindset?
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#10"We believe that AI’s emergence shows the potential for state capacity to be oriented toward a different mission that centers the ambitious creation of socially useful green infrastructure like clean energy, healthy schools, libraries, social housing, and public transit." The basic problem that left leaning politics are refusing to address is that the above were radical propositions. Schools, libraries, social housin…
So you think a philosophy needs to welcome all change in order to be coherent, and that there's an inconsistency to promoting things you believe are positive while opposing things you believe are negative?