"We're in an AI race with China" okay why aren't we in a solar race or high-speed rail race or healthcare race or quality of life race or some shit.

[elizafox@social.treehouse.systems]

@ariadne I would like us to at least fucking try

[ariadne@social.treehouse.systems]

@Elizafox you might, but apathy is the American way

[elizafox@social.treehouse.systems]

@ariadne "Why do anything when we can just keep doing things the way we've been doing since the 80's"

[renardboy@mastodon.social]

@Elizafox weaponizability 🫠

[tym@tilde.zone]

@Elizafox a tiny electric car race would be cool too

[jimjoe_isback@mastodon.social]

@Elizafox We were, we lost. No reason to expect this race to be any different.

[ambientspace@cloudisland.nz]

@Elizafox indeed!

[andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it]

@tk @Elizafox all co(r)ps are bastards

[bouriquet@mastodon.social]

@Elizafox Because we already lost those right at the starting line.

[dancingtreefrog@mastodon.social]

@Elizafox Cuz China's already way ahead of us in all those categories???

[pockets@lgbtqia.space]

@Elizafox
What was that thing in "Oppenheimer" where he took the math to Einstein because there was a concern that it would ignite our atmosphere?

That's where we're at.
How many groups have said that AI is likely to kill us all, but they're *still* racing towards it?

I guess people are more concerned about *which* AI kills us than *whether* AI kills us. I mean, we'll be dead either way, so why does it matter?

[thenovemberman@bookstodon.com]

@Elizafox Because the oligarchs running Trump have decided they can make money on it, and now they're too far down the hole to pull back.
#EatTheRich

[moira@mastodon.murkworks.net]

@Elizafox Because Shitstain and his family have massive investments in AI.

[canleaf@mastodon.social]

@Elizafox they are rather doing the 996race

[pat@social.patmulcahy.com]

@Elizafox Exaaaaactly!

[bunny_jane@plush.city]

@Elizafox could we at least have a car race? Races are often done with cars! I'd love to be able to buy a $15k electric hatchback in bubblegum pink with 500 miles of range that fast charges in 5 minutes, has solar panels on the roof, and was made with safety regulations that ensure I won't be trapped inside if it crashes. But no because capitalism hates competition.

[ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai]

@Elizafox

This you’ve got to see how it’s appropriate. We need two data centers in every garage 30 alpr per corner and 20 cameras shoved up our respective bodily orifices then smother the entire economy in AI in order to beat China.

The US was made great by smothering its military with so much money that it doesn’t know what to do with it.

Look where it got us!

[dragonfrog@mastodon.sdf.org]

@ariadne @Elizafox I can't remember where, but I heard it recently pointed out - the only part of the AI industry that's close to profitable is bulk inference computation. And that's something that just needs a big building and cheap electricity - so the advantage there goes to the country with the greatest efficiencies of scale in construction and solar panel installation. Which is China.

[whitecattamer@mastodon.online]

@pockets @Elizafox Because the people who think that AI will destroy us out of a conscious, willful decision are influenced by the Roko’s basilisk thought experiment, also known as “what if we made Pascal’s wager even dumber but made it about computers because that’s cool”.

[ttskyhammer@mastodon.social]

@Elizafox because people aren't abominable intelligence