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Peter Thiel claims AI is “Leninist” and “literally communist”[..]

• jelliclesfarm 7y ago
  https://youtu.be/E-IaSS0bbGU https://youtu.be/E-IaSS0bbGU Quote: [..] If we were to tell the two technological stories about scale at this point, one of them is still the sort of crypto revolution which is still going on with Bitcoin and has this sort of this libertarian potential. But I think there is sort of an alternate tech story which is about AI, big data, centralized databases, surveillance, which does not seem libertarian at all. You're sort of going to have the big eye of Sauron watching you at all times, in all places. And I often think that we live in a world where the ideology always has a certain veil on it. So if we say that crypto is libertarian, why can't we say that AI is communist, and at least have the sort of alternate account of scale?[..] [..] The main AI applications that people seem to talk about are using large data to sort of monitor people, know more about people than they know about themselves […] where you can know enough about people that you know more about them than they know about themselves, and you can sort of enable communism to work, maybe not so much as an economic theory, but at least as a political theory. So it is definitely a Leninist thing. And then, it is literally communist because China loves AI; it hates crypto. And so that, I think, tells you something. And then I think there's a commonsense level on which people are creeped out about it and this is why. And we should label it accurately.[..]
• bediger4000 7y ago
  Is there a reason we should care why such a rando says this?
  • jelliclesfarm 7y ago
    What are your thoughts on this?
    • bediger4000 7y ago
      Wait, are you the "Leninist" AI? I bet you are, because you're not passing the Trotskyite Test.