Got my first "AI is going to revolutionize the world" dude to that thread from yesterday.
But, I want to be very clear to anyone else thinking "I'll debate this person about AI's value because-"
Let me stop you there.
If you tried to engage me in a debate about eating my own shit, I'd also tell you to fuck off.
*Just* the *extant* externalities of this technology make it, independent of its "value", worthless. Add to that the fact that it's garbage, and again, debate is worthless.
I always described this urge to debate *everything* as sitting down with the person who kidnapped your kids and civilly discussing, over coffee perhaps, the relative merits of child rape.
Like, no, I'm not going to be open to conversing about whether or not your need to have an LLM stroke you when you're lonely at night is worth burning the planet to a crisp.
@johnzajac @stanley The demotion of ethics is really astounding. Ethical considerations used to be proscriptive. In medicine or science if an experiment or trial could not be run ethically, it *could not be run*. Full stop.
Techbros have seemingly turned ethical issues into just a part of a larger calculus; merely a negative weight that can be outweighed by strong-enough upsides. "Sure, lack of informed consent isn't *ideal* but think of the data we would collect."
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