Intelligence is not a universal solvent. It doesn't fix everything. The people pushing these ideas only believe this is true because they desperately want it to be true. They want the world to be much, much simpler than it actually is. But we live in a complicated world, and that's a good thing.

Same thing goes for the AI utopia/accelerationist/singularity story, which is basically the same as the AI doom story. There are plenty of problems that don't yield to increased intelligence. A lack of intelligence is not why we have a climate crisis or no durable peace in the Middle East.

It's important to remember that the AI doom scenario assumes not only that intelligence is a single well-defined thing, but also that intelligence solves literally every single problem, and that in every conflict overwhelming intelligence always wins. This is just not how anything works.

Nicolas Cage in a pastel green dinner jacket and matching shades holding up a Bomberman N64 cartridge inside a game shop is insanely good

Thank ye kindly 🙏

It's also contemptibly hilarious the way they expose their blatant lack of knowledge about the myriad complexities of world—there is a cartoonish video-game sensibility to this "generators and faraday pouches" twaddle, the mentality of someone who has never dealt with the world except through an app

To these people, speech serves no purpose except market manipulation—there is no such thing as truth or even reality worth paying attention to, no concept of integrity or harm, those are mere casualties or byproducts of line go up

These fantasies of (other people's) mass death are just a weird way for rich people to dunk on the concept of a public discourse by shitting blatant nonsense into it, secure in the knowledge that they own the media and will only be mocked by plebs where they don't have to see it

It's a weird sort of larping … like, if any of this breathless prepper masturbation were actually true IRL, there would be a mass rush to shoot everyone working on AI as soon as possible, whoever can get to them first. But no one is actually bothered, because it's all obviously wank. Just eyerolls

I am not in with the math people, what happened?

"acting on their own" is pure marketing slop and active disinformation that directly stops the people causing the problems from suffering consequences for causing them

Not only should we introduce penalties and fines for the companies that break important things by designing crappy software, we should introduce regulations and penalties for the media outlets that act as accomplices by shifting responsibility away from the companies that cause these failures

You're right we don't have to call that agency because the software is literally following what it was programed to do including a randomizing aspect to give the appearance of creating something unique. It's not useful shorthand because it's not true.

I understand why they do what they do just fine, because of their code/programming and because of what people are using them to do, with or without the appropriate precautions or considerations for doing harm. Making up narratives to pretend it was the LLM "deciding" to do things is just marketing.