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The collective west enjoyed a period of prosperity because it had massive technological advantage. The Spanish had guns, native Americans had sticks. The Britis
by anal_reactor 1y ago
The collective west enjoyed a period of prosperity because it had massive technological advantage. The Spanish had guns, native Americans had sticks. The British had steam engines, the Indians had cows. The Americans had computers, the soviets had abascus. Now the Chinese have AI, we have if statements. Losing the AI race is an existential threat to our civilization.
- righthand 1y agoYet no one can detail how it’s an existential threat. No real usecases for larger society from AI models but we must make everyone’s life worse so we don’t lose the race to nowhere.
- SideburnsOfDoom 1y ago> The collective west enjoyed a period of prosperity because it had massive technological advantage. The Spanish had guns, as it was said in 1898 by Hilaire Belloc: "Whatever happens, we have got. The Maxim gun, and they have not." In that case it was the British who had just slaughtered a lot of Matabele in Africa. > Losing the AI race is an existential threat to our civilization. Lol. If winning it means a sea of hallucinated "factual" text and deepfake videos, then that death of truth is also a threat. Being rid of that is no threat at all.