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Me, "How do i fix my broken washing machine?" AI "I can help with that" Me, "What do i do?" AI, "First, pay me $10 dollars for the first 10 minutes of assistance in digital currency". Me ,"Fu#k off"

As Frank Herbert wrote: “Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”

Exactly.

Convenience capitalism has already trained us to not cook for ourselves...

That!

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BRB, gotta get some 50 lb bags of catnip @boredbrendal.bsky.social

Exactly.

This.

No the issue is that they would have bots that would do literally anything they were told to do which is a big issue when the person telling them to do things is a total psychopath

The maga movement in large part has been about not having to think for oneself - they need a daddy figure to tell them what to do, what to think, and above all that it's going to be ok. AI is a natural extension of this mentality

I don't really ask AI questions unless it's whether there's a reason to keep going

The most dangerous thing about AI isn’t that machines might think. It’s that so many humans were barely thinking to begin with… and now they’re terrified something might do it better. You’re not being ‘trained’ to stop thinking, Sasha. You’re just mad that the mirror got too clear.

My use of LLMs means I spend less time thinking about implementation details and more time thinking problems at higher levels of abstractions.

I've always predicted that AI won't take over the world, but a human will use AI to take over the world.

Uh huh…

No one can control how I use my own mind. Having never used AI, I am curious as to why you would even consider allowing it? It's just not logical. Your mind is ultimately the only tool you own, why would you allow anyone to convince you otherwise?

“A cerebral laziness has taken hold of us. No more books; even detective novels have now become too great an intellectual effort. … Even the childish motion picture does not tempt us any more.” from Pierre Boulle, Planet of the Apes.

People are finally catching on

Men dreaming fairy tales (Tolkien, Asimov, Lem) of eternal life uncredible

And then make us subscribe to their version of machine thought- dangerous lies.

Exactly. It's not an accident that they are training people to talk to their devices instead of typing. In a society that doesn't value oral tradition, we aren't sustaining knowledge by giving up on reading & writing

Oh dang this is doing numbers. You can find my SoundCloud - and my open access books and papers - at www.schock.cc 🫣

And the products of their great wealth have reinforced belief systems that the average working person would consider laughably insane.

Butlerian Jihad now

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yeah stop thinking for ourselves and end up getting ourselves funneled ever downward into a lowest common denominator, a toothless commodity, permanently enshittified