Deme

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[–] Deme@sopuli.xyz 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

AI has huge potential for surveilance. Palantir exists.

To continue on the nuclear analogy: Yes it resulted in bombs that can kill us all multiple times over, but nuclear energy isn't completely neutral either. It encourages centralization of infrastructure and the dangers associated with it result in regulation by governments. Both of these shaped societies.

To quote a piece of text I read just recently that I feel put this quite neatly:

We are told that "guns don't kill people, people do", or that a component is just a component, indifferent to what its combinatorial potential is. This is a convenient lie. It serves only to allow the builders to wash their hands of responsibility.

But we know better now. We know that architecture is politics, and politics is control. The way you build a system determines how it will be used. If you build a system optimized for mass surveillance, you will get a panopticon. If you build a system optimized for centralized control, you will get a dictatorship. If you build a system optimized for extraction, you will get a parasite.

The current LLM boom is primed to deskill current and especially future workers and the biggest business case is to invade the workplace with even more technological feudalism through subscription services than is already in place.

[–] Deme@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I like how the clancker threw in some umbillical cables for the suits too, like it's the 70's.

[–] Deme@sopuli.xyz 40 points 1 month ago

The HR person will get fired if the facial recognition sees her not smiling like that.

[–] Deme@sopuli.xyz 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The superhuman AI did social hacking on the devs and convinced them that it was a good substitute for them doing their jobs

[–] Deme@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 month ago

In the future when the mechanisms of wealth extraction have been honed to perfection, this will be a feature of the system.

Jk it already is.

[–] Deme@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No and no. Every oar handle goes forward and back at the same time and the boat goes forward. That just means that the rowers facing backwards are doing the movements in the opposite phase compared to the rowers facing forwards, pulling when the others are pushing and so on.

The only issue I see, is that the oar on the left has nobody holding it. And ofc the side of the boat is missing.