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All of the things you mentioned serve the primary purpose of making the rich and powerful more rich and powerful, not improving the lives of the majority. We c
by latexr 1y ago
All of the things you mentioned serve the primary purpose of making the rich and powerful more rich and powerful, not improving the lives of the majority.
We could live without self-driving cars, and most of the world still does; faster chips are nice but not revolutionary when we’re using them to waste away watching six hours of ten seconds disinformation videos a day; LLMs are literally telling people to eat glue, convincing people to kill themselves, making cocky ignorant assholes more sure of themselves, and increasing the spread of lies and misinformation.
Humanity would probably benefit from moving slower, not faster.
- astrange 1y agoMuch of the world has, and our part of the world had, self-driving cars called horses. > LLMs are literally telling people to eat glue That's because Google forced theirs to summarize its search results and search results don't work anymore because we only have one website left.
- rangestransform 1y agoThey all fulfill individual desires better than the next best alternative, and that's reason enough to have anything
- latexr 1y ago> and that's reason enough to have anything I very much is not. That logic could be used to justify just about anything, from slavery to littering. You don’t live in a world populated by just yourself, there are people around you affected by your actions. Be respectful and mindful that what you do affects others. And yourself as well, even if you don’t immediately see it.