We should all be learning that we’re all children. Some of us, over time, gain a lot more baggage and issues, but that shit just layers right on top of the “child” parts so we’re all just basically children with complex problems.
The brain doesn’t “prune” itself. The brain you had when you were 12, you have that same damn brain. It doesn’t change. Stuff just gets added to it.
Almost anyone with an irrational political stance betrays their youth.
Political ideology has always captivated the passions of youth, but isn’t successfully implemented or even internalized except by people with age and experience and emotional regulation.
Bears can be trained to drive cars and communicate through various means, it’s thought they may be as smart as great apes like gorillas. This is why they were a choice circus animal for a long time.
Yes, this should be terrifying information.
The average middle-class capitalist moron view of economics is when you get rich the government fires up it’s money machine and delivers you sacks of cash. The only thing keeping us all from getting our own sacks is momentary inconveniences and they too will be rich one day just as soon as they [fill in a thousand blanks.]
A billionaire has deprived vast numbers of people of something. You do not hold onto a billion dollars in your hand without the knowledge that some… or most of that would have paid for medical procedures, some of that would have been baby formula, medicine, overdue rent payments, gas to get to work for a struggling family, heat and water bills and so on. But you have found ways to skim that money from enough people that few notice. Because you don’t miss something that was intercepted before it made it to you.
You simply cannot ethically hoard money.
I don’t think any of this is even real to them. The same way that a majority of the white-nationalist 4-channers are just roleplaying and losing themselves in the storylines, as a species we tend to do that, we just get lost in a narrative because it explains how we feel.
The tankies are doing the same exact thing. They’re not impacting policy, they’re not marching for anything, they’re not taken seriously and it’s just another in-club that has its own language and imagery and secret handshakes and a unifying message to rally behind (America bad!) and instead of turning that criticism into actionable plans for changing representation and making anything better, they put on WW2 Russian Tanker helmets and have erotic fantasies about a communist uprising that will never happen.
Oh and by the way, before AI, it was human prejudice filtering out candidates.
This technology isn’t changing anything. Techbro’s haaaate this warning because deep inside we all just want the world to get better, and AI’s promises seem so bright and magical, but this is because as a species we’re quite simple and easy to fool, we need to maintain some humility and understand that just because someone can mirror humanity doesn’t make it magical and divine in nature.
It may make us more efficient at the way we do things already, from the good shit like productivity and finding new ways to do work, to the bad shit like discrimination and prejudice. AI isn’t intelligent, it’s just a tool to do more of what we already do.
ChatGTP is a framework hosted on OpenAI’s servers, it doesn’t “collect” your data itself, instead companies pay OpenAI to make use of it to basically come up with clever ways to sort data and find patterns and results. Those companies are the ones who save your data and feed it through algorithms to look for whatever result they’ve trained their slice of the AI to look for. This is the way that most Large Language Models work right now, there’s only a handful of actual LLM’s that are owned by larger companies and rented out to developers.
This BS is the same as facebook memes that say “Bill Gates and George Soros are collecting your posts to farm lizard-people babies and start the New World Order! Everyone write ‘I DO NOT CONSENT TO HAVE MY POST TURNED INTO LIZARD FEED’ after every comment you make!”
It doesn’t really work because no company worth a dollar is going to rely strictly on AI screening. Speaking as a manager, I simply don’t put people on my team that I haven’t vetted carefully, nobody I know in the professional world would differ.
I am getting up there in years and seeing this play out over and over.
I think every generation wants to be more progressive than the last, but we tend to carry baggage of fear and insecurity through the generations. Or more specifically, older people tend to gain the political and monetary capital needed to affect policy and shape our societal outlook and attitude. They will always be more conservative than the younger generation who will want more freedoms and personal rights, inherently, and as the ruling class will clash with newer sensibilities, over and over.
What we’re asking here, is the conservatism reflected in our elders and leadership now broadly more harmful or helpful? Are we out of the touch or is it the kids who are wrong?
I think it’s a mix but mostly it’s not our real problem. Our real problem is that no matter what our age, we have greatly misunderstood how our own existence works. Most people have been taught that they have brains designed to exercise logic and reason and that brains are the best thing ever if you use them and make them smart.
No, our brains are not logical tools. We are not a rational species. There was no “age of enlightenment.” It’s all a hoax. Our brains are tools designed to write a story to explain how you feel. And that’s it. It doesn’t even have to make sense. When we all learn how our brains actually work we will collectively make better decisions, have more compassion for each other, and likely sink into even deeper despair as we all start to realize we have no free will.