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The Majority AI View
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#42I've found it very weird observing how CEOs across many companies behave as if they're part of some hivemind. When to do layoffs, how to implement office policies, and now pushing AI in the same way as if they have no brain of their own. It's very offputting. I can't tell if its collusion or whether maybe capitalism has its own goals that are pursued in lockstep by its creepy agents. I think the end goal is definitel…
Hypothesis - your average CEO is a normal person without much more insight than you or I but they don't want to look dumb and so go along with whatever the trend is.
It’s the safer bet. If you just do what everyone else is doing and it ends up being wrong, it’s not your fault, no one could have predicted that.
Re: The Majority AI View
#43>What we all want is for people to just treat AI as a "normal technology"
Fair enough but in some ways it isn't. It works as a normal tech now but it has the possibility to become self improving, supercede human abilities and get on without us in a way that cars and toasters do not.
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
But we don't need to do anything. We don't need AI and so we don't need a push for it. If AI is just a "normal" technology that has some legitimate uses, it doesn't need a huge boost, it doesn't need any hype at all. It can just be slowly discovered and used by the people who have a legitimate use for it. Doing nothing is often a good move.
“ technology that has some legitimate uses, it doesn't need a huge boost” That’s what I’m disagreeing with. “Legitimate uses” isn’t something just hanging out in the ether to attach itself to useful technology it happens via a grinding sales process and big industry wide cultural changes. People don’t like change. I think AI and its knock-on effects in robotics will have massive productivity boosts in industries wher…
I guess what I'd say is that if that grinding sales process and those industry-wide cultural changes have all the negative effects we're seeing with AI, then we shouldn't make that trade. There is simply no urgent need to adopt AI, and the frenzied push to adopt it anyway is actively harmful.
Re: The Majority AI View
#45I've found it very weird observing how CEOs across many companies behave as if they're part of some hivemind. When to do layoffs, how to implement office policies, and now pushing AI in the same way as if they have no brain of their own. It's very offputting. I can't tell if its collusion or whether maybe capitalism has its own goals that are pursued in lockstep by its creepy agents. I think the end goal is definitel…
I’m not sure of the forum where they exchange and align on goals and approaches, it probably exists in some forms, but ultimately I think it’s CEO’s not wanting to be too far from the pack.
If you make the wrong call on one important thing and everyone else is right, your company is f_cked.
Re: The Majority AI View
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
“ technology that has some legitimate uses, it doesn't need a huge boost” That’s what I’m disagreeing with. “Legitimate uses” isn’t something just hanging out in the ether to attach itself to useful technology it happens via a grinding sales process and big industry wide cultural changes. People don’t like change. I think AI and its knock-on effects in robotics will have massive productivity boosts in industries wher…
I guess what I'd say is that if that grinding sales process and those industry-wide cultural changes have all the negative effects we're seeing with AI, then we shouldn't make that trade. There is simply no urgent need to adopt AI, and the frenzied push to adopt it anyway is actively harmful.
“If people keep stabbing each other with knives then we shouldn’t make that trade just to be able to continue to cut vegetables at home”
Tale as old as time itself.
“But on balance it’s a negative!!”
By what measurement? That’s simply a measurement of your own personal information bubble.