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by pesus 6mo ago
You're right, I did pick a bad example. It was extreme, and I'm sure many HN users work for corporations like this and felt targeted. But it's also worth considering exactly what the mass surveillance state we've got is
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You should side with the people that aren't homicidal, not the ones that are polite and closeted about it. But also, homicidal is doing some heavy lifting here, isn't it? It may be accurate in this case, but someone saying we shou
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by pesus 6mo ago
Not at all. Please try reading more carefully and avoid being reductive. I'm arguing that you're confusing the tone of rhetoric with the meaning of it and drawing the wrong conclusion from that. Just because one side is more polit
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by pesus 6mo ago
> Yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and side with with people who aren't openly calling for horrible deaths of those that disagree with them. And there it is - this is why fascists coach their language in a veneer of politeness. After a
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by pesus 6mo ago
Ah, the classic "people excluded from the democratic process must only work within the democratic process". It might be worth looking into what the suffragettes did, because it wasn't politely begging men to please let them v
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by pesus 6mo ago
And this is an excellent example of how "polite" fascists come to power. After all, the one with the more "civilized" rhetoric must be the one to support, regardless of why people are so strongly opposed to them.
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If that's the worst problem they have, that still sounds like things worked out pretty well compared to most places.
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Are you willing to stand by this argument and give up your career?
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I'm not sure the next batch of schoolgirls getting bombed will particularly care whether the choice was made "democratically" or not. I also won't particularly care about the distinction when AI is inevitably used to ena
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If that's the case, why doesn't he trust his own product enough to write this?
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He isn't going to suddenly grow a conscience from a riveting, intellectually stimulating conversation.
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by pesus 6mo ago
He's pretending to care about the negative effects AI will have on society at large, but goes on to say it's necessary and "must" happen. If he actually cared, he wouldn't continue down that path. He also wouldn&#x2
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I find it interesting that Altman's fans seem to keep skipping past this fact. I'd love to hear their defense as to why one person potentially being responsible for hundreds or thousands of deaths is acceptable, but attacking that
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by pesus 6mo ago
This is getting more and more specific - I was talking about him encouraging violence. But some examples: Jan 6, the attack on Paul Pelosi, every ICE agent. Personally, I've also received multiple death threats from his supporters.
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by pesus 6mo ago
> The world deserves huge amounts of AI and we must figure out how to make it happen. > It will not all go well. The fear and anxiety about AI is justified; we are in the process of witnessing the largest change to society in a long t
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by pesus 6mo ago
> To what numerical end? How many people live in Iran, who he just threatened to genocide? How many people hold views that Trump thinks make them his enemy, including being critical of ICE? How many immigrants are in the country? It&#x27
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by pesus 6mo ago
Fair enough, but I still think it at least somewhat applies to people who are willing to get involved in any kind of political process beyond the very basics or perhaps some special interest groups.
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by pesus 6mo ago
I'd say an important distinction is AI is currently threatening to displace a significantly larger number of jobs across multiple sectors. Whether it can/will actually happen is yet to be seen, but the potential amount of scorned
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by pesus 6mo ago
People in politics aren't that dissimilar to tech bros (especially AI ones) in terms of world view.
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It at the very least provides more cover to the ones denying the claims. They can blame it on AI in the hopes they're not the next one being targeted by vigilantes.
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by pesus 6mo ago
I'm more cynical - I think that breed is mostly extinct, and the current batch is downvoting/flagging because they don't want the sentiment to spread.
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by pesus 6mo ago
Do you spend much time with people not in the tech world? I think you'd be surprised how many people hold similar sentiments, even if not to such an extreme, especially once you talk to people in the real world. I've heard far mor
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by pesus 6mo ago
Wait, you think it's illegal to post something racist online? That is absolutely not the case in the US, and I have no idea why you'd think it was. It's also pretty confusing why you think simple descriptors are "slurs&q
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by pesus 6mo ago
How many other social network sites have their CEO posting and promoting white supremacist rhetoric?
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> On the flip side, I'd ask the question: if someone supports banning these data centers, why not support just banning the AI companies entirely? I suspect we'll be seeing more and more of this sentiment in the coming years in
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by pesus 6mo ago
Can you explain how important they are? So far the benefits seem to be limited to faster code generation, which doesn't solve any actual problem people were facing, and is greatly outweighed by the negatives.
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by pesus 6mo ago
Your profile indicates you're head of engineering at an AI startup. Can you provide a reason why someone who isn't financially motivated by their stake in an AI company should support new data center development for AI? Especial
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by pesus 6mo ago
It's more "sus" that you blindly trust the police, politicians, and billionaires that have a history of discrimination, violence, and oppression and attempt to slander those who don't. Not to mention blindly trusting AI
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by pesus 6mo ago
If the drones are "providing information" to the police, it's only a matter of time before their AI hallucinates something that gets someone killed. We've already seen AI gun detection services that report things like Do
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by pesus 6mo ago
You're not alone. I keep hoping there's some sort of fire to put out at work so I can at least be distracted enough for a bit.

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