mhoyeIt's difficult for me to talk calmly about companies that are excited to spend hundreds of millions of dollars training stochastic models while the teachers in every public classroom in North America pay for their own chalk, some of their students' school supplies and some fraction of their students' lunches out of their own pockets. That those companies go on to say this will make the teachers "obsolete" is too much.
"We need a sovereign AI strategy!" Fuck that and fuck you. If you don't have an every child sleeps in a warm bed under a safe roof and studies on a full stomach strategy, if you don't have an everyone who wants an education can have one strategy - and you can have all of those for one percent of your sovereign AI strategy - your sovereign AI strategy is worth nothing.
"We spent only ten billion dollars training a machine and now it can unreliably do a thing we never spent a goddamn cent training humans to do" fuck that and fuck you. "But I'm so much more productive" you know what you're participating in and what it costs the world and who you're enabling and fuck that and fuck you. "But I'm so much more productive" no you're fucking not, and even if you were fucking listen to yourself, listen to what you're saying. Look at the world you're building. Fuck you.
"I'm so much better at making my made up number look like my company's made up numbers now that instead of understanding what I'm doing I can just argue with the machine that turns rainforests into javascript until I give up and click Y a lot I just don't understand why I'm sad and tired all the time" fucking listen to yourself. Look at what you are doing and listen to yourself doing it for just one goddamn minute. Where is your fucking self respect? Fuck everything about this and fuck you.
barsoomcore@mhoye please come to my bar so we can shout at each other about this
Katrien M Michiels@barsoomcore @mhoye please tell me where your bar is. I want to join in the shouting.
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