Jonathan Wight

The juxtaposition between “if you use AI you are worse than a pedo” people vs “I have uploaded my brain into openclaw” people is wild.

The rest of us are somewhere in the middle trying to figure it out.

I do have to say the openclaw lunatics certainly seem to be having a lot more fun (as their bots happily delete their Time Machine backups). While those who sneer and look down on anyone using ai just seem like your normal internet assholes.

Apr 3 at 3:05pmWeb
Show threadJan Lehnardt 21h ago
@schwa internet asshole at your service :)
Show threadJonathan Wight21h ago
@janl well we knew that.
Show threadJonathan Wight20h ago
@janl you also haven't called be a pedo lately either…
Show threadRené Fouquet21h ago
@schwa My timeline here is literally "AI is the most important invention of humanity ever" and "people who use AI are not better than people raping babies" back to back. It's...exhausting.
Show threadNatalia Ossipova19h ago
@renef @schwa The first part is much worse on LinkedIn. Megalomaniacs.
Show threadJonathan Wight17h ago
@nossipova @renef yeah but it’s LinkedIn. What were you expecting? ;-)
Show threadAlex Rosenberg19h ago
@schwa Oh man, a free-running bot would just start trying to fix an “out of space” error by carefully deleting things. Yikes. They already have too much drive to move forward.
Show threadJohn Gordon 📷19h ago
@schwa I joined the end of a call yesterday where the first thing I heard was a comment that you probably shouldn’t connect your agents to your AWS account if it has production system permissions… yeah, no sh*t Sherlock!
Show threadDarren McGuicken16h ago
@schwa I think if your livelihood/art has already been effectively eliminated by it, while those who hated that those things required stinky human bodies somewhere in the mix delightedly cheer from the sidelines, it’s probably harder to be entirely chipper about it. ‘If only this wasn’t quite so relentlessly evil from its training through operational necessities right on to who and what it’s targeting’, isn’t an ideal place to start the opinion-forming stage from.
Show threadJonathan Wight15h ago
@dmcgk “effectively eliminated” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in your post.
Show threadJonathan Wight15h ago
@dmcgk I'd assume most people decrying other folks using AI have _not_ had their livelihood/art eliminated. The vast majority infact. We're seeing crazy layoffs in tech for example - but most of that is _not_ coming from AI (yet?) - despite whatever it's being blamed on.