Protect your consciousness from AI
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Protect your consciousness from AI
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#4I'm far too lazy to be able to responsibly use a machine that can give me semi-sensible answers.
I saw the danger of it as a form of learned helplessness down the line and swore off using LLM's for that reason, that and I feel no need to delegate my thinking to a machine that can't think and I like thinking.
Same reason snacks are upstairs in the kitchen and not in my office on the ground floor - I'm too lazy and if they are easily available I'll eat them.
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#5> In the professional world, I see software developers blindly copying and pasting code suggestions from LLM providers without testing it, or understanding it.
When you see that, call them out on it. Not understanding copy+pasted code is one thing, but not testing it is a whole other level of garbage.
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#6> This creates a sea of noise and misinformation that people unknowingly consume at scale.
The same objections apply to the written word. A culture that succeeded in not succumbing to writing and reading may indeed have been better off in the short term, depending on the quality of the memes. But it would have been at a competitive disadvantage to cultures that were permissive with knowledge transfer.
The main advantage of AI so far has been as a distiller of the knowledge embedded in the written word. It's another leap in knowledge transfer. That's still a competitive advantage to any culture that doesn't abjure it. This particular consciousness intends to leverage the opportunity.
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#7This isn't a new problem at all. If you only started noticing it as a problem with "AI", as the author apparently did, then you were blind to how our mediums and tools have always shaped us, alienated us from the world and each other, and made us dependent on mechanism. This has happened hugely already with television.
You can go back and read McLuhan, he's great, but a recent and more approachable book on this is _God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning_.
Way back in 1969 the utopian vision of technology put humans at the centre. The Whole Earth Catalogue's slogan was “access to tools.” Just _tools_. That same year, technology put a man on the moon.
Unfortunately, if you realize the extent and the history of the problem, you see we're so far gone, miles away from getting a grip.
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#8I always thought hacker culture was independent and skeptical. Somehow AI has turned a lot of them into drooling fanboys.
It’s embarrassing. Don’t rely on AI, guys. Have pride in yourselves.
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#9> This creates a sea of noise and misinformation that people unknowingly consume at scale. The same objections apply to the written word. A culture that succeeded in not succumbing to writing and reading may indeed have been better off in the short term, depending on the quality of the memes. But it would have been at a competitive disadvantage to cultures that were permissive with knowledge transfer. The main advant…
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#10Culturally we are going through a phase where thought is getting massively devalued. It’s all well and good to say “I’m using AI responsibly”, but it won’t matter if at the end of the day no one values your opinion over whatever ChatGPT spewed out.