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Please don't say mean things about the AI I just invested a billion dollars in

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Re: Please don't say mean things about the AI I just invested a billion dollars in

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Post by mrnaught »

kshri24 wrote: post #85

> just use my evil technology Ridiculous to say the technology, by itself, is evil somehow. It is not. It is just math at the end of the day. Yes you can question the moral/societal implications of said technology (if used in a negative way) but that does not make the technology itself evil. For example, I hate vibe coding with a passion because it enables wrong usage (IMHO) of AI. I hate how easy it has become to sc…

“Just do enough good...”, it is hard to define what is "good". This tech has many dimensions and second-order effects, yet all the tech giants claim it a “net positive” without understanding fully what is unfolding.

Re: Please don't say mean things about the AI I just invested a billion dollars in

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Post by tsunamifury »

GolfPopper wrote: post #4
jaybyrd wrote: post #2

guys were just trying to take jobs away from you.... please stop being mean to us - richest people on earth 2026

You forgot... "by stealing from artists and writers at scale".

Something something… great artist steal.

Re: Please don't say mean things about the AI I just invested a billion dollars in

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Post by pixl97 »

budududuroiu wrote: post #117
kshri24 wrote: post #85

> just use my evil technology Ridiculous to say the technology, by itself, is evil somehow. It is not. It is just math at the end of the day. Yes you can question the moral/societal implications of said technology (if used in a negative way) but that does not make the technology itself evil. For example, I hate vibe coding with a passion because it enables wrong usage (IMHO) of AI. I hate how easy it has become to sc…

Well, at this moment, the evil things done with technology vastly surpass the good things done with technology. Democratisation of tech has allowed for more good to happen, centralisation the opposite. AI is probably one of the most centralisation-happy tech we've had in ages.

Centralization of technology has been happening at a rapid pace, and is only a tiny bit the fault of technology itself.

Capitalism demands profits. Competition is bad for profits. Multiple factories are bad for profits. Multiple standards are bad for profits. Expensive workers are bad for profits.

Re: Please don't say mean things about the AI I just invested a billion dollars in

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Post by donkey_brains »

jaybyrd wrote: post #2

guys were just trying to take jobs away from you.... please stop being mean to us - richest people on earth 2026

Today a manager at my work asked all his teams including mine “please write up a report on how many engineers from your teams we could replace with AI”.

Surprisingly, the answer he got was “none, because that’s not how AI works”.

Guess we’ll see if that registers…

Re: Please don't say mean things about the AI I just invested a billion dollars in

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Post by [deleted] »

snowwrestler wrote: post #147

> As someone who desperately needs this technology to work out, I can honestly say it is the most essential tool ever created in all of human history. For those having trouble finding the humor, it lies in the vast gulf between grand assertions that LLMs will fundamentally transform every aspect of human life, and plaintive requests to stop saying mean things about it. As a contrast: truly successful products obviate…

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Re: Please don't say mean things about the AI I just invested a billion dollars in

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Post by freejazz »

shepherdjerred wrote: post #57
only-one1701 wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Without phones, we couldn’t talk to people across great distances (oversimplification but you get it). Without Generative AI, we couldn’t…?

Are you really implying that generative AI doesn't enable things that were not previously possible?

> were not previously possible?

How obtuse. The poster is saying they don't enable anything of value.

Re: Please don't say mean things about the AI I just invested a billion dollars in

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Post by relaxing »

quantum_state wrote: post #88

Viewed from historical perspective, big tech is really reaping the benefits of the intellectual wealth accumulated over many thousands of years by humanity collectively. This should be recognized to find a better path forward.

What should?

Re: Please don't say mean things about the AI I just invested a billion dollars in

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Post by robinhoode »

kshri24 wrote: post #85

> just use my evil technology Ridiculous to say the technology, by itself, is evil somehow. It is not. It is just math at the end of the day. Yes you can question the moral/societal implications of said technology (if used in a negative way) but that does not make the technology itself evil. For example, I hate vibe coding with a passion because it enables wrong usage (IMHO) of AI. I hate how easy it has become to sc…

If we lived in a sane society, AI would actually be used for good.

AI is literally trained on by humans, used by humans. If humans are doing awful things with it, then it's because humans are awful right now.

I strongly feel this is related to the rise of fascism and wealth inequality.

We need a great conflict like WW2 to release this tension.

Re: Please don't say mean things about the AI I just invested a billion dollars in

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Post by pixl97 »

johnnyanmac wrote: post #100
kshri24 wrote: post #85

> just use my evil technology Ridiculous to say the technology, by itself, is evil somehow. It is not. It is just math at the end of the day. Yes you can question the moral/societal implications of said technology (if used in a negative way) but that does not make the technology itself evil. For example, I hate vibe coding with a passion because it enables wrong usage (IMHO) of AI. I hate how easy it has become to sc…

>Nothing either good nor bad but thinking makes it so - Shakespeare That said, their thinking is that this can remove labor from their production, all while stealing works under the very copyright they setup. So I'd call that "evil" in every conventional sense. >Just do enough good that it dwarfs the evil uses of this awesome technology. The evil is in the root of the training, though. And sadly money is not coming f…

Even this has little to do with AI and points right at the capitalist society that already exists. HN really doesn't like to talk about their golden child that let's money flow, but the concentration of wealth and IP by the super wealthy occurred before GenAI was a thing.

This also ignores the broken fucking copyright system that ensures once you create something you get many lifetimes of fucking off without having to work, so if genAI kills that I won't shed a tear.

Re: Please don't say mean things about the AI I just invested a billion dollars in

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Post by gradus_ad »

Jensen needs to keep escalating the hype to keep the hoarding dynamics in play. Because that's what's selling GPU's. You can't look at voracious GPU demand as a real signal of AI app profitability or general demand. It's a function of global tech oligarchs with gargantuan cash hoards not wanting to be left behind. But hoarding dynamics are nonlinear through self reinforcment and the moment any hint of limitations of current gen AI crop up spend will collapse.
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