Sure, that’s definitely an option that would be healthier/easier for me personally, but can you really disengage when people in government build concentration camps and secret police force? I’m not even American or in America and it’s just overwhelming…
One thing that really saddens me in all… this (gestures broadly at everything) is that I have no idea how to deal with people with no empathy, with people who think this is okay. I just really do not know what to say an how to say it.
I’ve been raised with empathy. I knew even before going to kindergarten that it’s more fun to share some of my toys with other kids because then we can all play together. I knew that doing nice things for others gives you that warm fuzzy feeling. I learned that helping people is GOOD.
And I just don’t know how to deal with people who have not. I don’t know how to deal with people who will put other people in cages just because they look vaguely Latino, without due process. I don’t know how to deal with people that cheer for that. I just don’t know. How the fuck do I, do we, deal with people who have no empathy whatsoever? Not a rhetorical question by the way, I hope someone can explain it to me like I’m overly sensitive empathetic five-year old…
Good - nobody needs billion-dollar startups. The line doesn’t have to co constantly go up forever. We don’t need to constantly improve productivity and do more for less. Fuck that and fuck this “debate”.
The problem is that this approach only works with people who are able to feel shame and/or care what the plebs thinks about them…
I said it before, and I’ll say it again - this is a scene from Idiocracy playing before our eyes, only the corporate morons were brainwashed into putting “AI is awesome!” in every sentence instead of “brought to you by Carl’s Junior”…
Brawndo AI - it has electrolytes!
Goddamned shameless ghoul, holy fucking shit. We’re really in full-on Idiocracy mode, only these morons feel like they have to mention AI in every single sentence instead of Carl’s Jr…
Amen to that: I want to play games made by people who like games, by people who play games, and by people who want to make games. Not by MBA suits who like money and just want to make more money…
Sadly, I believe nothing will happen until a bunch of masked thugs in unmarked vehicles kidnaps, say, very Mexican illegal sounding Rafael Cruz and trafficks him to, say, Burkina Faso, because country of origin or nationality doesn’t even matter anymore…
And even then the message would probably not get through, and would be waved off with “but that’s different!” :(
How very corporate of them: people don’t want to do something? Screw finding out why, let’s make it mandatory and poof, problem solved!
You thought vibe coding was bad? Welcome to the age of vibe bombing…
Trump just desperately wants to nuke something. Anything’s fine, he just wants to drop a nuclear bomb on stuff. I mean, he was floating nuking a goddamned hurricane before.
He’s like a toddler that sees a big red button and just HAS to push it, because it’s just there and it’s so big and red and it will make things go boom!
I hope so, I genuinely do.
I think I’ve reason for this is that using LLMs is basically outsourcing all cognitive capacity to a machine, so the cognitive decline is comparatively bigger.
Does using a calculator cause a cognitive decline? Absolutely, but since you still need to know the order of operations (at least with simple calculators), how to interpret brackets and such, it’s comparatively small. Same with, say, a thesaurus. You do outsource a part of cognitive capacity used to learn big words, but still need to know grammar to string sentences together.
With ChatGPT though, you literally do almost nothing. Asking a simple question is all you need. This means your brain doesn’t need to work at all, and getting used to that means it’s harder and harder to make it work when you need it to…
It’s absolutely not okay, but since there will be no negative consequences for it whatsoever, it’s the new normal. This is sadly what happens when laws are not enforced, and I’m not sure if anything even can be done anymore…
Not sure if worst, but quite likely the stupidest. I’m no genius myself, but the amount of utter (and aggressive!) stupidity that surrounds us is so exhausting…
Because THAT’S the person that you look at and think “yup, that’s my role model, he’s awesome!”… What’s wrong with people, seriously…
Exactly - such labels would be ignored even more than the ones on cigarettes are, especially by the addicts. And it’s so much easier to completely hide them too - adblockers already hide a lot of content people don’t want to see, this would just become another line in the filter list so fast…
Brilliant lecture, and it points out the reasons for fundamental differences in morality, but apart from calling things by different names (vide Alligator Auschwitz in this very post), which is a great succession, it doesn’t give me much actionable advice.
Still fascinating though - them you so much for posting it here! I want to listen to/read more things by him now!