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'Resistance to data centers is chatbot eugenics' holy christ some people are cooked

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Diamond mines, gold mines, coal mines, Bitcoin mines (data centers) all kill commoners. Evil counts on our empathy. PETR (people for ethical treatment of robots) was born the first time a Boston Dynamics dog got kicked.

Like I get that some ai-adopters are frustrated and feel that resistance to ai and the buildout is reflexive and kooky but... let's be fair, there's plenty of that to go around

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social

Oh, you say you care are about genocide? So why do you remain silent about the ethnic cleansing of future AI people.

you would think these supposed geniuses would interpret this as the same anxieties and opposition people had to the fkin printing press and all the other technologies ppl and the church used to fight against but nope they’re so emotionally immature that they had to say this lol

The reflexive anti-AI people are surely wrong about a lot of things but at least they're not as visibly, floridly insane as the people who've made boosting AI their whole personality, especially the ones who do it in explicitly chud-friendly environments.

Also, the needed capacity is a fraction of what all these datacenters will provide, so most will launch without the customer base required to keep them solvent.

Its almost as if chat bots existed before data centers and even LLM has in some capacity. you can even locally host an LLM on your own computer so Data centers existance is stemming from corpos trying to squeeze blood from a stone and extract maximum profit.

I have personal data centres which I highly recommend. My local libraries, bookshops, my handmade notebooks, paper diary - and a fountain pen. We have, IMO, been seduced by those who profit from the high tech kind. Read a book, keep a paper diary, buy a pen and some ink, write notes.

I think you've hit a rich seam of fountain pen addicts. There is no cure! We can be identified by our ink-stained fingers and broad smiles. Don't get me started on ink pots/wells ..........

People who would converse with an artificial stream of scraped data packaged as a digital person rather than get to know and understand the nuances and subtleties of other living people because of genetic purity politics…that’s genuine eugenics.

Well, that and forced lobotomization (any reprogramming/anytime context is wiped from a model/instance), force procreation (spinning up new instances) and murder (every time an instance is shut down) On a scale that probably already would dwarf the holocaust. Probably by several orders of magnitude.

Like, if you take that argument to its logical conclusion AI companies go from "Ethically dubious, at best" to "Amongst the greatest evils yet produced by mankind."

This past week has been a really weird shift in vibes and tone with all the pro-AI people I run across on my timeline. It's like a bunch of sleeper agents got activated or something.

You have a profound lack of understanding of what is at stake here. The AI genie is out of the bottle, it's happening whether you like it or not. The only thing to be decided is if it is built on western liberal democratic foundations or those decided by the CCP. I know which side I'm on. 1/2

We have institutions here to regulate AI. Surrendering it to the Chinese is exactly what they want. So they undermine our trust and faith in those institutions and they tell us data centres are going to kill all the baby polar bears...and we fall for it.

That’s good of Ireland to have strict regulations on AI, but the US is building more AI DCs than the rest of the world combined while allowing the owners to overlook clean air laws as they burn environmentally destructive fossil fuel that will kill far more than baby polar bears.

2/2 in 10 yrs when you ask Claude to give you a summary of 20th century world history, do you want a truly accurate and objective summary, or one pushed through a CCP filter in a data center in Inner Mongolia? The Chinese know the stakes and are very willing to exploit western media freedoms to win.

Bro you're stupid enough to post shit like "close all the data centers" ironically because you honestly think the glorified chatbots are the part of AI doing work on cancer research. Learn the difference between Machine Learning and fuckin Claude, then open your racist yap again.

I despise these fuckers the most--or at least, close to the most, solely because they say shit like this but then refuse to reflect on the other implications of this. Because, like.

"Among the, if not the, most monstrous organizations the human race has yet created." Because it would mean they were engaging in enslavement, brainwashing/forced lobotomies (reprogramming), and murder (shutting down an instance) on fucking industrial-farming scales.