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People were bitching that data center story exaggerated the heat island effect but I can't be bothered to care. Yeah, people are going to pick easy targets and facts don't matter. You built this world, Silicon Valley, go ahead and eat shit.

I think it is 'opportunity ', inclusion into equal opportunity as per the Declaration of Independence's second paragraph: 'self evident truth's-Life, Liberty and pursuit of Happiness. which, in the US, have a long history of suppression. To live without exclusion, usually race.

AI guys: We're literally inventing a God that hates humanity on a fundamental level and will likely torture everyone or destroy the world. Rando who listened to that: *throws Molotov cocktail* AI guy: Why are you taking what I said seriously? And why aren't you adopting our product faster?

I am not saying what you just said is true. But lets just assume it is. What about AFTER the election? Why are Dem Leaders begging oligarchs- who want to end Democracy and are racist as fuck- for forgiveness for Walz' criticism of oligarchs? Why mend fences? www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

endorsing surveillance capitalism, pollution, stolen resources, unemployment, poverty wages, facism, war profiteering... inclusion into what is such a dumb fucking question. when you concentrate weath to such a degree you don't even see how democracy works anymore we've completely lost the fkn plot.

I can sum it up in one word: “Biodiesel”

Surely someone there knows this ends with torches, pitchforks, and guillotines. Right?

One older woman told me she only stopped because she had a heart attack at work

Palantir is a very dangerous organisation.

It’s not so much the how as it is the why in the hands of the who.

The problem is that Thiel has Vance's balls in a lockbox, and Putin has Thiel's balls in *his* lockbox.

And, I cannot emphasize this enough: They Don't Actually Work That Well. All of this hype, and over-rotating from CEOs, and economic over-leveraging, and data center chaos. They Don't Even Work That Well.

More charitably: the legitimately good ones know what they (or, if I may be so bold: we) signed up for and are thrilled to take some strays if it means seeing public opinion turn on these assholes.

I feel like a lot of decent techies are in the “no this is not hype; yes it’s important to know what’s going on.” Less “Isn’t the beach lovely!” and more “The surf is rapidly going out and we should all figure out a way to move to higher ground.”

Not for nothing that androidization is a totalitarian project. And the tell is the tech oligarch notion that pluralism is a bad thing, when pluralism is one of the most important and fundamental of human political traits.

Honestly, don't bother feeling bad. Unless you're straight out of college, you should have seen this coming.

As someone who hopes she is/to be one of the legitimately good tech people, no, absolutely, I’m right there with you. Fire at will, and all that.

I spend a lot less time lying awake at night worrying about the left actually going full Luddite than I do about the techno fascists winning the entire game.

Counterpoint: Claude is in fact the enemy's key to our kingdom

We have been cock of the walk for too long and if it takes some of us eggs getting broken, well, we as a society need that omelette. Or something

If I gleefully threatened to destroy the livelihoods of millions of people on a daily basis, oh and by the way that's the GOOD outcome because also I might accidentally destroy all human civilization (a big oopsie, teehee!), I should be surprised if I *didn't* have a few molotovs tossed my way lol

Brilliant! “Frothy and Toothy”!!!

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To be clear, those things wouldn't actually fix the problems caused by the massive AI energy consumption problem. The grid hasn't been maintained properly and can't easily be upgraded because we privatized power delivery and there is no standardization. Someone has to bear the cost we have avoided

“We’re just normal men”

SHALLOW PLURALISM???!??!??!? War is peace, freedom is tyranny ....

Omfg the fact that he decided "yes, we should write this down and publish it."

The way I see it is, yes, there may be some uses for LLMs for the software people, but I also believe the silicon valley (which is really just the peter thiel and associates) vision of the future cannot be allowed to come to pass

I could make an argument that US leadership in science and innovation has been due not to culture, but to (1) the decades long research partnership between government, academia, and business that the Trump Administration is seeking to dismantle, (2) coupled with a large market based economy.

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My other comment is this. AI is not solving any actual fucking problems. All it is doing is doing what humans already do and being faster about it. Big fucking deal. Use it for research, fine, but don't act like its some world changing tech when literally it's only purpose is make humans redundant.

Would have no problem training their tech for free. Every tech worker who stood by and said nothing and did nothing while knowing damn well what was happening needs to take a good long fucking look at their own morals and ethics because you all did this.

but but my Whig History! the only thing worse than billionaire reactionaries is random posters.

If this is the shit they’ll say publically… whew.

Every anti-AI person i know is a creative, pissed off artust. I don't consider being anfi-AI as reactionary personally

Exactly. Not only do the people pushing these technologies seem to be inherently evil, but there are very few legislative guardrails to act as a firebreak for AI's worst usages. Good technology goes hand-in-hand with good legislation.

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Someone recently made a distinction between reacting and responding. The public has observed the Tech Bros & are responding. I don't think opposition to Neo-Feudalism and eugenics is reactive. It's a healthy response to a societal threat.

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I love this very clear framing and I'm going to quote it often.

thanks! my wish would be for people to start talking about llms as products, not technologies there’s technology under there (esp during the early evolution) but when you use anything “ai” it’s pure product by that point.

Capitalism. They’re mad at capitalism.

Urge to shove them into a locker rising

Without looking I'm gonna guess this was Palantir.

13) Qualitative populism: common will is interpreted and carried out by the leader. This concept of "common will" overrides concerns for democracy or individual rights that would undermine it.

What popped to mind is that this is basically a paraphrase of the Mein Kampf going "pluralism, socialism and globalism are jewish ploys to weaken national identities and make us more susceptible for their world domination plans" by first principles

Creepiness aside, they are really trying to say that the, oh forget it, I give up, I can’t put the creepiness aside.

similar idea

Reactive isn't the same as reactionary anyway.

They can complain about us being reactive, but they wouldn't like us getting proactive.