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I must admit, I’m very behind on whatever drama is behind this.

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What do you think has changed in a year?

My take would be that many average office workers are pretty accepting of being told what to do, and are being told to use AI, and that the technology is more or less sticking the landing, at least enough to get used.

maegul (he/they) @lemmy.ml 2w ago

They all look pretty big to me on a map.

maegul (he/they) @lemmy.ml 2w ago

Yea, it’s the thing I find myself repeating to anti-AI peeps (of which I count myself) … you don’t realise how behind you are.

Not behind on missing out on knowing how to use AI, but on how much things have shifted and the world turned and how much heavy momentum is involved and far back the facilitating patterns go.

Same with the fediverse to be honest. It’s a reaction to the state of social media in ~2010.

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maegul (he/they) @lemmy.ml 2w ago

Having never visited … I’m still blown away by this being a lake (that is fresh water right?)

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maegul (he/they) @lemmy.ml 2w ago

I think the threat is greater still.

Without jobs, and living off of whatever state based support, what leverage will the jobless have in society? How easy will it be to simply dismiss and ignore this economically disenfranchised cohort? To forcefully abuse them if it’s politically convenient? To completely prevent them from moving economic class. It certainly won’t be a clean jump to Star Trek “utopia”.

And beyond that of course are AI apocalypse scenarios. With machines increasingly running the world, what leverage will humanity have over it?

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maegul (he/they) @lemmy.ml 2w ago

Hmmm … what would be the evolutionary perspective on this? A Lamarckian process overlaid on a Mendelian/genetic process through epigenetic modulation, passing on modifications based on parents’ local experiences of the current environment?

To us expecting to live 80 years, it might seem silly. But for mammals hoping to just survive, it may make lots of sense.

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maegul (he/they) @lemmy.ml 2w ago

The dirty little secret is that the education system is a conformity production line, even gate keeping wealthy society by a student’s ability to conform.

Find exams dumb and pointless and never get a good justification for their significance and so struggle to care and perform well at them? Sorry, you’re out of the pipeline.

Which doesn’t mean learning and assessment are useless. It’s just clear that the emphasis of the system is very mechanical.

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maegul (he/they) @lemmy.ml 2w ago

Interestingly, I don’t think I share this sentiment.

I’m no fan and personally don’t use AI (I barely touched it early ChatGPT days). But people use it to do things in successful fulfilment of their initial purpose.

I’ve seen it. Maybe I’ve seen the successes and not the failures in some cases. And I’ve certainly seen badly failed attempts to use it, but in those cases I’m happy to ascribe the failure substantially to a misapplication of the tool (which to be fair certainly invites gross misapplication).

My point though is that I don’t think an absolutist “AI is never useful” position is persuasive any more nor absolutely accurate.

Which, in my view, makes addressing the “rest of the situation” all the more fundamental. Indeed, I think everything g other than its efficacy was always the important part.

Part of the problem is that ethical arguments are difficult for people and many just switch off when it comes to the common good. Which is all of course part of the problem too.

But I think that’s gravity of the situation right now: our collective instincts may be misaligned for the moment. Our personal habits vulnerable from our prior corruptions. And our societal architectures already mutated, perhaps beyond repair, and therefore ill equipped for this.

Doomy, yes, but you’ve got to fight the fight you’re in, not the one you’d wish you’d won.

Another way I could put this counter, is that I feel like so much of what’s bad about AI was bad before AI, and that society from 2005-2020 badly mishandled technology. Whether AI “works” or not doesn’t matter. So long as it can fit into the same shape and meet the same urges that tech did 2005-2020, it will be adopted. But if the consequences of its adoption are graver than what came before, then the whole stack of that history needs to be addressed.

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maegul (he/they) @lemmy.ml 3w ago

And with how this particular AI technology only works by consuming all of the internet’s and our libraries’ data … it’s not just a transfer, it’s pretty much theft.

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maegul (he/they) @lemmy.ml 3w ago

And it also becomes recursive I think.

People want to be good parents. But in late stage capitalism, that means setting your children up to succeed in that environment. If people struggle to set themselves up as parents, they can’t have faith that they’ll be able to set their children up such that there’s just no point. Especially if you start thinking about the future and whether your grandkids could even be ok.

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maegul (he/they) @lemmy.ml 3w ago

I think there’s just a basic lack of understanding out there.

I’ve recently encountered a few people who didn’t know that “flu” is just one particular virus/pathogen. So whenever they got sick after having the flu vaccine they figured it didn’t help anything at all.

Of course there’s likely some post COVID anti-vax sentiment mixed in there. But it was conspicuous how little basic information was understood.

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maegul (he/they) @lemmy.ml 3w ago

Would anyone actually be down for “year one”?

I’m a broken record on this now, but I personally really dislike the idea of Trek doing the whole nostalgic reboot thing. And I’ve even found it kind of offensive that SNW has become such an obvious vehicle for it because for me the charm of the show was to reimagine what TOS quite literally could have been (as the continuation of the first pilot rather than the second pilot which is what we got with TOS).

I’m sure there’s a pitch to studios that could work, but in the grander scheme of Trek, I’m just not sure it’s at all a good idea.

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maegul (he/they) @lemmy.ml 3w ago

Anyone ride wonder if there’ll be an asymmetry between the ease/speed at which bugs/vulnerabilities are found and at which they’ll be fixed with AI systems?

That is, AI assistance may find and exploit bugs more easily than it can fix them?

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maegul (he/they) @lemmy.ml 4w ago

positioned in 3D space using CSS transforms.

Wait … how does the gameplay work? There is t any JS?!

maegul (he/they) @lemmy.ml 4w ago

Oh I think this is for sure the case. And it’s very interesting to see Darwin appreciated that too.