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> If you judge on aggregate then "Every great technology developed to date has been a net positive" is nonsense. It's not nonsense. If you think so, provide on

• Alwayshasbeeb 3mo ago
  That's quite easy. Fracking Social media infinite scrolling and targeted ads Short form videos (tik tok, YouTube shorts, instagram reels) Coming soon: Deep sea mining Some of these are not great technologies, you might say. Well if they're impactful enough to turn everyone I love into a phone zombie and make the political landscape violent and insane then that's enough.
  • Marha01 3mo ago
    Those are just specific applications of some technology, not comparable to AI in general.
• matkoniecz 3mo ago
  > It's not nonsense. Yes, it is. You cannot go "overall progress was positive" and conclude "every change was positive". > provide one great technology that has been a net negative nuclear weapons + nuclear energy (luckily we had no nuclear war, but benefits here are not worth risks) AI in general and LLM specifically so far smartphones in general and social media specifically maybe internet overall, maybe computers overall biological weapons leaded gasoline (I know that you already excluded "social media" as "specific applications of some technology", I disagree with it)
  • Marha01 3mo ago
    >nuclear weapons + nuclear energy (luckily we had no nuclear war, but benefits here are not worth risks) >AI in general and LLM specifically so far >smartphones in general and social media specifically >maybe internet overall, maybe computers overall I disagree that these are net negatives.
    • matkoniecz 3mo ago
      So we have "biological weapons" and "leaded gasoline" as accepted examples.