RE: https://mstdn.social/@Nickiquote/116222250986071820

This dystopia fucking sucks.

#AI #tech

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116223003573492128

Yeah, no shit.

Currently the word "investment" means "shoveling all the money into a roaring furnace with the letters AI stenciled on the side" - they have to try to recoup some of that charred paper somehow...

#ai #tech #business #amazon

RE: https://tech.lgbt/@wakame/116222963688452484

Too real.

@maiathecyberwitch Jeg mente nok mere skribenten. Og politikeren.

RE: https://xoxo.zone/@Ashedryden/116222141322963643

Oh, BTW, you know who also didn't like the educated & critically thinking & would often start by removing opportunities for education, then later get around to rounding up & eliminating the educated people themselves?

Every dictator in world history, ever.

Nobody can be allowed to claim that any of this is mysterious or unprecedented. We know exactly what's going on & it's the same old thing.

#fascism

RE: https://mastodon.social/@murena/116221517566100096

"- conventional AI regulation and modest democratic reforms – transparency rules, impact assessments, anti‑concentration measures, better oversight, digital literacy and restrictions on political uses of AI – are all necessary, but insufficient. They do not address the deeper drivers: unregulated capitalism, entangling of corporations with the state, social atomisation, ideological myths and the vulnerabilities of liberal democracy." - Stephen McNair

#AI

@sinituulia @TheBreadmonkey - and just casually munching on a was of grass the whole time. Sign me up. 🦬

(yes, I know it's a buffalo emoji)

@paulbusch I absolutely love this kind of practical, overdue inventions 🥰 I was lucky enough last year to land a job where we help inventors for free (it's a public service) & a lot of the most interesting ones are from people in the healthcare sector - I could definitely see a dude like this walk in our door

(by way of example, a case from our department - though before my time - was Dr. Henning Andersen's TAVI heart valve, which ended up saving his own father's life )

@maiathecyberwitch Jeg ser at *nogen* ikke har fanget "My perfect sunday"-joken i Hot Fuzz...

@pluralistic Indeed - I am referring to things like that, included under the term "automation" in this context; "intelligent systems" or whatever we call it.

Current AI status is just that + bubble.

The contrast is to e.g. industrial production automation; an embodied set of decisions expressed in a machine that does [thing] automatically. You're not wrong to hark back into history, but I hope we can agree that in this context, 2016, or even 2006, is still "new".

RE: https://mastodon.social/@DrALJONES/116222032063247632

Once more for the back row: These people truly believe that the purpose of a military, the job of a soldier, is violence - the more cruel & brutal the better.

You best believe the next step is trying to do away entirely with the concept of a war crime, on the grounds that if it happens in war, it's fine.

- and the step after that, of course, is to call everything a war. Wait, they already do that.

#fascism #uspol

@jab01701mid @blogdiva Hell, I'd be fine with setting the bar quite a bit higher - I'd be prepared to deal with the occasional regular asshole with a little too much money, just as long as we're far, FAR away from any individual commanding economy-destabilizing amounts of money...

RE: https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/116219201828586963

My God, this shit is so fucking stupid!

For the record, this is all not just mathematically wrong, but also historically, not to mention morally - but that's par for the course; they know it & are deliberately lying. There's always some rich people stooge with an equation that "proves" how taxation can't possibly work.

The stupid part is that this kind of insane nonsense completely dominates the global public debate about economics.

#economics #politics

RE: https://mastodon.social/@noybeu/116148621039863050

"It's only stealing if I admit it".

It's completely fucking insane, the way we keep letting Tech get away with shit that would never, EVER fly for any non-digital situation! 🤬

It has to be stopped. The world can have a quiet Butlerian Jihad where we peacefully curb the tech sector's ability to skirt the law now - or we can have the bloody, destructive one that will inevitably happen at some point in the future if we let them build the technofeudalist society they clearly want.

#tech #intpol

@johnzajac Except if you put "intelligence" in quotes. Remember, he does not give a single dusty fuck what's inside the package, just as long as he can force everyone to buy it "on a meter" forever.

@eleanorrees No, it doesn't - if you're the gatekeeper, which is EXTREMELY much what Altman, Amodei et al are competing to be. There's no such thing as a delivery such people won't jack up to infinite dollars if A. people are forced to buy it and B. they have a monopoly on selling it.

Do not for one second delude yourself that these guys are trying to run a business. They couldn't operate a curbside lemonade stand. They only understand exploitation.

RE: https://social.data.coop/@cryptohagen/116221489092892504

Det aktive begreb her er "belastede". Højrefløjstyper tror selv deres verdensbillede er merit-baseret; at man er dér i livet hvor man fortjener at være. De fortjener selv deres høje status, selvfølgelig, hvorfra de kan stille krav til samfund & andre mennesker - men det er ikke hykleri, når de ikke mener andre skal have samme ret til krav & forventninger; den slags har man, som "belastet", ikke gjort sig fortjent til, ser du. Så ville man jo ikke bo sådan et sted, vel?

@YongSun De skal selvfølgelig sidde efter farve.

@jaredwhite Very much the same sentiment expressed by Ed Zitron & I also vigorously agree - if anyone should be categorized as tech haters, it's the assholes destroying it just to make even more money...

(haven't heard the podcast yet)

https://www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/

https://helvede.net/@jwcph/116220547336405177