AI Destroys Institutions
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AI Destroys Institutions
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#2A thought provoking essay on impact of AI systems civic institutions.
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#5> The affordances of AI systems have the effect of eroding expertise, short-circuiting decision-making, and isolating people from each other.
This affordability is HEAVILY subsidized by billionaires who want to destroy institutions for selfish and ideological reasons.
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> > universities [...] empower individuals to take intellectual risks and challenge the status quo.
What a misleading quote you made there. Why?
Full quote:
> Purpose-driven institutions built around transparency, cooperation, and accountability empower individuals to take intellectual risks and challenge the status quo.
I'd agree with that universities more often than not don't fall into the group of "Purpose-driven institutions built around transparency, cooperation, and accountability", but that's a different thing. There are more institutions than universities.
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#7Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46622870
Not really a dupe if no one really discussed it. And I'm glad, didn't see it that previous time :)
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#8This dire warning against AI echoes the anxieties of a much earlier elite: the late-medieval clergy facing the invention of the printing press. For centuries, they held a privileged monopoly on knowledge, controlling its interpretation and dissemination. The printing press threatened to shatter that authority by democratizing access to information and empowering individuals.
Similarly, today's critics, often from within the very institutions they defend, frame AI as a threat to "expertise" and "civic life" when in reality, they fear it as a threat to their own status as the sole arbiters of truth. Their resistance is less a principled defense of democracy and more a desperate attempt to protect a crumbling monopoly on knowledge.
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#9This dire warning against AI echoes the anxieties of a much earlier elite: the late-medieval clergy facing the invention of the printing press. For centuries, they held a privileged monopoly on knowledge, controlling its interpretation and dissemination. The printing press threatened to shatter that authority by democratizing access to information and empowering individuals. Similarly, today's critics, often from wit…
If what you say was true, why are people from not within those institutions also try to warn others about the potential downfall of "expertise" and "civic life"? Are they just misinformed? Paid by these "institutional defenders" or what is your hypothesis?
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#10This dire warning against AI echoes the anxieties of a much earlier elite: the late-medieval clergy facing the invention of the printing press. For centuries, they held a privileged monopoly on knowledge, controlling its interpretation and dissemination. The printing press threatened to shatter that authority by democratizing access to information and empowering individuals. Similarly, today's critics, often from wit…
> a desperate attempt to protect a crumbling monopoly on knowledge
More like a war on the traditional, human-based knowledge, leveraged by people who believe that via coveting the world's supply of RAM, SSDs, GPUs, and what not, can achieve their own monopoly on knowledge under the pretense of liberating it. Note that running your own LLM becomes impossible if you can no longer afford the hardware to run it on.