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This came up on a thread last week. I participate in a couple communities like this, and then my other major community is local politics (a seriously effective
by tptacek 7mo ago
This came up on a thread last week. I participate in a couple communities like this, and then my other major community is local politics (a seriously effective way to meet all your neighbors) --- I'm a housing activist. The local politics forums I'm on are populated almost entirely by people who don't work in technology. I see way more fascination with AI there than I do any anti-AI sentiment.
Tech hosts a particularly virulent and ideological strain of anti-AI activism; I think because the disruption it threatens for our jobs is much less abstract than it is for everybody else.
- gopher_space 7mo agoYou need a 'pro-AI but anti-every-AI-company' category or you'll spin out like a GMO debate.
- jhbadger 7mo agoExactly, just as there are rational reasons to dislike Bayer/Monsanto's influence on the business of agriculture without being hysterical about "Frankenfood", you can be against OpenAI, etc. without thinking AI is going to destroy civilization or whatever.
- 000ooo000 7mo ago>Tech hosts a particularly virulent and ideological strain of anti-AI activism; I think because the disruption it threatens for our jobs is much less abstract than it is for everybody else. We know how the sausage is made. Your non tech folk only see the marketing/hype, so of course they're optimistic.
- tptacek 7mo agoUh, OK, I'll take your word for that, but either way, the claim in the grandparent comment doesn't hold.