politics
Friday, June 26, 2026
This is the most coherent and well-reasoned argument against AI I am aware of
I read every word
Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131 This is the most coherent and well-reasoned argument against AI I am aware of
I really genuinely mean this
I don't think I recommend reading it, unless you are interested in LLM discourse
Waterloo native
they're just like that
I am about half way through reading it
It is an interesting read
I don't disagree with the points being made, though I am more pragmatically an AI hater than most here despite enjoying messing around with it
I am as pro-AI and AI accelerationist as I think possible, but genuinely appreciate an opposing take that grants the premise "what if this isn't just going to magically go away"
and (for as far-left as they are) actually seems to rationally approach the question of what would be necessary to absorb it as a society
I think at the end of the day, the biggest points against AI are that it will, and is, crushing middle intelligent people into paste who cannot do anything more so then they already couldn't, and it is going to collapse the world because it is kind of proving to people that the entire economy is a lie and that 95% of jobs are just adult daycare
also it fucking lies about math and makes people do insane things, but that is more personal bias
Replying to Phijkchu_Pikachu #klombak I think at the end of the day, the biggest points against AI are that it will, and is, crushing middle intelligent people into paste who cannot do anything more so then they already couldn't, and it is going to collapse the world because it is kind of proving to people that the entire economy is a lie and that 95% of jobs are just adult daycare (edited)
This is really well said
no that reads right
it will, and it already is
I think a second comma might make it more clear
is the wordier version of it
I think about AI and stuff like this a lot, because I do see value in it while realizing that the world is kind of fucked because of it. Google search AI has helped me with assignment questions, not by giving me answers, but by giving me random suggestions on how to proceed that I messed around with myself
Being somewhat of an expert in my field of math though, I can see the faults in AI, and see why it is a pitfall for people who are not experts to just not know why it is wrong
its wrong is subtle ways 75% of the time
The level of protectionism we're going to see to protect intellectual/white-collar jobs
is going to make gas station attendents out of all of us
The plus on AI is, the race for infinite profits might kill IP laws and copyright
which is the correct thing to happen
I forget about if I posted it here or not
the plan has already been laid for that
which I think is genius
the US sovreign wealth fund idea
where, because some huge portion of these companies will be made "publicly owned", that they have a right to all public works
OpenAI/Antropic/xAI/Google/Facebook/Apple/etc are in favor of it because it protects them from the copyright bogyman
and Trump, Republicans, Democrats, and the far-Left are all in favor of it because it's one big bribe
I'm sure Nick Fuentes, Thomas Massie, and The Pope are going to be against it for some reason
Alright I finished reading spooky's article, that was a long one lmao
At least 40% of the length was artistic liberties the author took in writing it, but overall, I think it was fairly reasonable for most of the points
I like all the random schitzo lore they drop about themselves as it goes too
Yeah, his writing seems like he's dumping his thoughts onto text and not reformatting it into coherent reading. Random interjections and such.
I'll be honest, I kept clicking footnotes and thought that the introduction was the entire article and below it was comments, so I'll hold my peace on it til I finish lol. I just agree with Tiny, it feels like this is a transcript to a briefing.
I had no idea who they were before
Replying to Kribbles #kribbles1 Yeah, his writing seems like he's dumping his thoughts onto text and not reformatting it into coherent reading. Random interjections and such. I'll be honest, I kept clicking footnotes and thought that the introduction was the entire article and below it was comments, so I'll hold my peace on it til I finish lol. I just agree with Tiny, it feels like this is a transcript to a briefing.
It does sorta read like a podcast transcript
granted, one where the host isn't grifting dick pills or trying to fill dead air by restating the same thing on-repeat
I like the use of Em-dashes, because I think half the people who are anti AI will see them and get mad
Kribbles, your document was more skitzo than this
I had such a hard time reading what I did of it lmao
It was also the third gayest thing you ever sent me
sent/said to
Replying to Phijkchu_Pikachu #klombak It was also the third gayest thing you ever sent me
fuck you I haven't even sent any gay shit to you
I think I also had whiplash when I read this earlier today, because right before it I was reading a take from the spurned college fling of the Anthropic CEO (who herself was an old-school PHD in machine learning and AI), saying that even if he is able to cure her cancer with AI she'll turn him down. And you could hear the reddit applause in her head as she wrote that
I think machine learning is really cool and awesome actually!
I will have to see if my EMT buddy was sent
(not Mini)
10 seconds on Facebook, yes he definitely was lmao
Saturday, June 27, 2026
Sunday, June 28, 2026
There was a time a few years ago, when if I was told my dollar store purchase was $1.58, I too might have gunned down Vinny
at least the story has a happy ending
Most of the good ones infact
(Canada is 90 days no visa)
Monday, June 29, 2026
