People hide their AI usage to avoid hate -> making less people aware of the depths of what it can be used for,

This does not follow. People who despise AI still talk about what it’s capable of. In fact, they probably talk about it more.

Actually, hate and anger spread throughout a population far more easily than genuine interest and novelty. I would think our distaste for it would actually be very helpful for propagating information about it.

you should also know why it’s a good tool for misinformation.

Okay, you’re right that it doesn’t suck in that specific way. But spiritually, it sucks very much.

You’re not really talking about counter-propaganda, though, you’re just talking about people… giving up the fight about it? Because it’s annoying to some game devs? When does the action come?

Keep in mind, any counter-propaganda strategy must involve its (AI’s) eventual dismantling or full, legal banishment because a democracy cannot survive a technology that wears people’s skin and drowns out other voices like this. Democracy cannot survive a Dead Internet.

But really, these technologies have little to no bearing on the debate around AI,

They do in the sense that all of them are driven by neophilia and big tent people horny for cash and power. Bitcoin would have been a paradigm shift had it been adopted by society, but it would have been a worse society. Because Bitcoin sucks.

#1 doesn’t have anything to do with liking it, though, that’s just… knowing what it is. I know what it is, and I dislike it. Like a bad movie, it’s really easy to do.

It will make it easier for them to claw AI technology for themselves

Okay, but why do we want it? What does it do for us? So what if only corporations have it: it sucks.

Do you remember bitcoin and NFTs? Those didn’t pan out very well. They were solutions looking for problems. What is it about AI that I should be excited about?

I’m implying it’s undesirable.

some tools are force multipliers in that action, and thus useful in that case.

Sure. And removing those force multipliers from play can affect the state of the game.

When we get enough hammer murders, then we can talk about restricting hammer use.

How… does… AI… solve the problems of corporate AI? What is the strategy?

And some tools are bad to use. People generally don’t like death.

Weapons are tools. They are tools engineered for death.

No, a hammer is useful.

An ethical, open-source alternative is going to usurp google gemini? What are you talking about?

Jarvis, explain to this man the concepts of “scale” and “size.”
Jarvis, rotate this man’s eyes ninety degrees clockwise.

That’s great. We can schedule it like heroin for professional use only, then.

Yes. Fuck the owners and fuck their machine guns.

I would draw a distinct line between the critical thinking of engineering and the critical thinking of the humanities, but yes. Just in the sense that engineering alone is good, but definitely not sufficient.

There is a common archetype of person in stem who thinks that because they’re very good at programming that they’re also very good at everything, and so spends half of their college tenure in a fratboy flophouse reinventing basic philosophy ideas Isaac Asimov thought of 70 years ago as part of their mission to solve society’s problems with bitcoin.

That is fantastic. I’m glad you like them.

The difference here, presumably, is that you’ve thought about what you eat and continue to do so knowing full well what that means, whatever it means. But~ not everybody thinks about it. Some people are carried forward through life just by the sheer momentum of their childhood.

And I say some people, but really, everybody is in some way or another. It takes active effort to change your course in life.

For example, no idea what your diet is like: if you eat a lot of junk food, do you know how much sugar you’re consuming? Have you ever thought about whether that’s a good thing?

Tom Cruise. But, plug

Ohhh, okay. I see how it is.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that 20% to 30% of code inside the company’s repositories was “written by software” — meaning AI.

Nadella gave the figure after Zuckerberg asked roughly how much of Microsoft’s code is AI generated today.

I highlighted part of the article for you.

I’m 100% positive that this comment will get downvoted heavily

Don’t worry, buddy, I’ll get you started. 🫡

ICE agents under the republican-elected Donald Trump’s republican administration arrested the wrong brown person, and after realizing this, said “take him anyway.”

This is it, possiblylinux. That’s the SS. We have the gestapo. There is no more “fiscal conservative.” There is no more “classical libertarian.” We are nazis now.

You can either be a classical american war hero and strongly oppose this, or you can be a nazi. Those are your options. I’m not saying this euphemistically. I’m not saying it as a metaphor. I’m not exaggerating for dramatic effect.

If you do not live in the US currently, and you do not want to be relocated to Guantanamo Bay or El Salvador, then you should not come here.

My friends do that.
Live your dream, mate.
Be free~

Then go and do that. I mean, what are you waiting for?