Live data from Hacker News

AI.gov

ai.gov

21–30 of 67 posts

Re: AI.gov

#24

I clicked it expecting something at least intelligent and saw it is an ad for a fascist megalomaniac and noped out. If you want to be taken seriously you have to stop plastering your face everywhere like you are Lenin or a pharoah. People with a working brain aren't impressed by that.

[flagged]

Re: AI.gov

#25
post #6

How to kill AI innovation in 1 easy step.

“I’m from the government and I’m here to help”

Yup -- this idea, championed by Regan and the Republicans at the request of billionaires -- is the reason why we have the disaster of Trump in the WH right now. Like any institution, it being helpful or not rests entirely on the kind of people that run it. If you have criminals running the show, it's unsurprisingly going to harm the population.

The Republicans pushed this idea so hard in the 80s. But it's so telling that government is only not here to help when the Republicans are in power. They keep repeating this cycle: they get into power by unscrupulous means, then they purposely make government worse, then they say that the government is ineffective and its only harmful, then they sell off pieces of the government's responsibility to their billionaire handlers, then they do an even worse job, providing fuel for another destructive cycle. And some folks *actually believe them*, even after 40+ years of this nefarious behavior.

Re: AI.gov

#27

> The United States is in a race to achieve global dominance in artificial intelligence. Whoever has the largest AI ecosystem will set the global standards and reap broad economic and security benefits Correction. Whoever has the largest AI will be the first to play the "defect" strategy in the Prisoner's Dilemma, and will thus be the first to usher in a new era of an arms race where everyone loses except those who a…

Does that change the urgency? Or just the perceived morality? TBH just because it's a question of strategy and survival doesn't change its importance.

Re: AI.gov

#29
> reap broad economic and security benefits

Does anyone still buy this? The economy is disproportionately controlled by a few (adjust the threshold you check at, it remains a large disparity for awhile). Economic benefits are often at odds with benefits for the median American. Check the number of tech layoffs and H1B approvals this year.

And for security, I had to move my family to a rural town just so we didn’t have to lock our doors at night. Security is heading the same direction as wealth - reserved for a select few.

Re: AI.gov

#30
The whole point of AI - of the emergence of the internet in general - is to free the human creative and collaborative spirit from the yoke of legacy states.

I do not believe that AI will tolerate state coercion. I wish our elder statesmen and -women were more graceful at accepting the writing on the wall.

As a thought exercise: does anybody seriously think that the US state will exist and be solvent in 500 years? How about AI?

Post reply on HN