I've just realised two things:
1. AI luddites are essentially vegans in both reasoning and attitude to life.
2. I've seen *much* less vegan evangelism since the anti-AI evangelism started.
Are they just the exact same people happy they can be mad about something else? Is the Venn diagram of vegans and AI luddites just a circle?
@icedquinn I think I am, I've seen the term "AI luddites" used many times and it describes them very well.
i've rarely seen anyone recognize how much of a hazard normalizing "send everything to altman" actually is, they're always stuck on just "but the JOOOOBBBSSS"
@icedquinn of course anyone wanting to use automation to centralise control will try to equate people against the former with people against the latter, as it makes them look ridiculous. Doesn't change the fact that in both cases the luddite movement is founded by workers whose jobs are getting automated crying that the entirety of society will benefit at the cost of them having to find a different job.
@technolyze damn, I didn't get the memo that if I support the technology I also have to be an idiot giving everything away to random tech CEOs. Was it passed along with the memo that all open source models and all AI companies other than the big bad ones suddenly disappeared overnight and are impossible to bring back?
@technolyze @icedquinn why are you lumping these things together? You know you don't have to? You can be against AI used to enact a surveillance state, as you should, but not immediately join the "all AI bad" hivemind. It is an option.
And no, it's not me reducing it nor bullshit propaganda, it's the majority of the discourse. Find any random person treating AI as the devil and ask them why. You're gonna get the joooobs answer, alongside any bullshit they heard about that supports their view, such as the hilarious misunderstanding of water usage.
@technolyze @icedquinn this is like being against computers as a whole because they're useful for surveillance. Yeah, but they're also useful for a ton of other things, you can just be against surveillance instead of going Amish.
@subnetter @icedquinn @technolyze reality: gotta put them somewhere, might as well do it where the land and workforce is the cheapest
people on the internet for some reason: it's all related; data centers are an extension of colonialism…
there's a lot of work on mixed precision training or neuromorphic models that kind of gets conveniently pushed aside because the current regime makes nvidia money