Shunning AI is the human choice

Post by TrnsltLife » Sat, May 23, 2026, 11:22 PM UTC

pepperoni_pizza wrote: post #135

echelon wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your wife is right. History is repeating itself. And not even for the first time. Horse carriage drivers -> Cars Print media -> Internet Drafting -> CAD Music -> Electronic music, DAWs Film photography -> Digital Traditional film special effects -> CGI Hollywood nepotism -> YouTube / TikTok / Creator economy (there are more millionaire creators now than movie stars) In each of these cases, there was a subset of peopl…

> Horse carriage drivers -> Cars I think you're badly missing the point. It is true that car drivers replaced horse carriage drivers and car mechanics replaced the people who took care of horses and what not. But in the horse carriage vs car metaphor with AI, people are not the drivers and blacksmiths, people are the horses. How many horses do you see around lately?

Unless you're living in the Flintstones, people are not the horses. Engines are the horses.

Carriages had drivers and passengers. Those human functions are still present in cars.

Yabba dabba doo!

Post by [deleted] » Thu, May 28, 2026, 3:29 PM UTC

bsza wrote: post #306

velcrovan wrote: post #59

Hating "AI" in the abstract is like hating public-key encryption. Ultimately it's just math. Once the math is out there, there's no going back. Instead of futilely demanding technology to go away, it would be better to focus on organizing together for better outcomes. https://opcraft.co/writing/2026/04/getting-the-good-ai-futur...

It's math that requires an obscene amount of compute. If it's possible to make DRM chips that don't let you play pirated movies and GPS chips that shut down when going too fast, then I reckon it's also possible to make GPUs that shut down when they encounter anything that looks like a transformer. The problem is regulatory, not technical.

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