You don't hate LLMs. You hate computers.
I'm serious. I mean LLMs are annoying in their own way, but all computers and computer like things are there to make work more efficient. That is to say, less total people, doing less overall work but each individual having to do more. Computers are just the production line in a factory with better PR. Charlie Chaplin was right.
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nah, I hate LLMs and i'm annoyed by and suspicious of the dominance of computers in social life & production
generative AI is digital colonialism. i'm not interested in any development of AI 'til/unless we're free enough that it could possibly be something other than a tool of extraction and destruction
@johnbrowntypeface I think that we agree in fact. What I was trying to express was that computers are digital colonialism. They were built to 'rationalise' production. That is what they do. It is the tool par excellence of Benthamite 'efficient' administration, read destruction of autonomy (collective control of our lives) in the name of top down imposition of 'the good' (the interests of the ruling class).
I think that generative AI by being novel brings out the logic that we have become accustomed to and so don't see. It becomes, rightly, a site of resistance. We need to remember that colonialism goes deeper. Just as the movement for the liberation of Palestine has to be part of a movement for the liberation of Europe and the US
i am sympathetic to computers as an extension of digital colonialism. but i feel though they exist in the same authoritarian setting, there is more room to use them in less extractive ways. that being said they've been created by and used in the same systems, so there is no way to separate them from it
i'm increasingly opposed to the cult of rationality/scientism. how many use stats to discuss behavior is very dehumanizing imo. absolutely ignores individual autonomy
Roberto von Archimboldi
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