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I've been saying for a while, and even just minutes ago, that a lot of anti-AI takes are classist, or just straight-up covert right-wing opinions coming out of the mouths of people who call themselves left leaning, and they'll sling death threats at you if you point this out

I disagree about the privilege. There are hundreds of thousands of Americans who don't even have an email. I wouldn't call many of them privileged.

At times I wish people weren't THIS hostile. I recently looked into the progress of self driving cars and I was impressed at how quickly they're expanding, with AI advancements also helping that sector. Having more robotaxis would be a life changer for me who's afraid of driving and is deaf.

near-term I think it will be like refusing to use a smartphone. which is fine, some people do that long-term it will be like refusing to use electricity, but the world will be very different by then

my statements are actually because of the polarization and ways in which the culture war has divided people i wish none of what i’m saying needed to be said

Awful

We don't design the map of our privileges, we can choose how much we use them.

The quotes for this post are already going *crazy* (I regret looking at them).

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I think it is presumptuous to think that only privileged individuals can hold principled or values-based stances. the pair of this take is "these fools don't know what is in their own interests; but I do!"

i mean i don’t disagree with you necessarily but we quite literally are past a threshold and point by which we can’t go back fine or penalize the big AI labs for what they did, make them pay and fund public goods, but we can’t undo what’s happened or how far this tech is now

That's a lot of catchphrases with no plan behind them, propped up by an assumption that the resources probably exist. The real path forward isn't "someone other than me figures out how to make an AI using only public domain material," it's "everyone contributed to this so everyone gets to use it."

It is also a example of the inter-petite bourgious nature of this conflict tbh. People selling flyers get assumed support for high prices while other small buisness raising prices so they can pay artists too get attacked

that’s not the promise of AI, there is no promise of AI. There are just tons of ways it can be used, and there are tons of ways that theoretically this could go down.

I think the political economy of the thing is somewhat to guns. (Very weak argument but I'm currently at my job so forgive me). Malcolm X saying that political power comes out of the barrel of a gun is not an endorsement of Heckler and Koch. Does that make sense?

how has sam altman interfered with anyone's basic needs being met?

Like organic candles, absolutely