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The prospects of the future are so intense that despite me being a lifelong tech junkie, I cannot brush away this dizzying underlying anxiety that arises when I

• quickslowdown 3y ago
  I've been personally feeling like we're opening Pandora's box. Everyone's all starry eyed about LLMs & other AIs, we're shoving it into any product we can find, looking to displace entire industries overnight. The models aren't good enough right now for anyone to be seriously worried, but once genAI is out of the bottle, there's no putting it back. And based on the entire history of humankind, I have 0 faith whatsoever we're going about this responsibly. Add to that the fact that there's perverse profit incentives around every corner, and I personally think we're about to shoot ourselves in our collective foot, not realizing until it's too late that we probably should have moved more slowly and focused less on capitalist goals & more on collective good. But AI bros absolutely hate being told to slow down with this tech, so I guess I'll just resign myself to feeling like Cassandra and hoping I'm long dead before we reap what we're currently sowing.
  • sdwr 3y ago
    There's a perverse beauty to it - we've collectively beaten the biosphere into submission. Explored the unknowns, commodified everything. And then, out of our ultimate triumph of order, safety, and control of the natural world comes life! That we can't understand, control, or even necessarily get along with. Full circle!