NireBryce

reality is the battlefield

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🐥 I am not embroiled in any legal battle
🐦 other than battles that are legal 🎮

I speak to the universe and it speaks back, in it's own way.

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'non-functional programmer'. 'far left'.

conceptual midwife.

https://cohost.org/NireBryce/post/4929459-here-s-my-five-minut

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we are not ready to have "AI" built into a society that, every few years, most countries flip their political alignment. still. Where monopolies can exist. Where people lie through their teeth to their constituents for reasons that always turn up to be worthless.

And like, what's the first thing they're gonna do with these things? parasocial relationships to better market with. they're already doing it with chatgpt style stuff


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in reply to @NireBryce's post:

Tangential thought about AI discussions, not really intended as a response to the original post here, but related:

i'm really weird about AI discussions, because a lot of it tends to be written as AI-phobia in the sense of people being afraid of sentient/sapient software in general. And as someone who often very much feels she is such software that accidentally found herself on fleshy hardware for some reason, that bugs me.

but the thing i feel about thinking about AI as people is that like, well, if I'm going to hold that a sentient AI is a person, then that makes a lot of questions extremely obvious.

If i think "If someone indoctrinated their child from birth with a fascist/capitalist ethos, and then gave them a huge quantity of resources to execute that ethos, would I be ok with that? Would I want them to keep having those resources?"

no. of course not. why the fuck would I? and if I tried to free them, why would I have any reason to believe that they'd magically understand and undo that indoctrination over night just because I found some way to give them more agency over their life?

but that's basically what AI created under current circumstances is most likely to be

yep. but also the thing that gets me about the discourse is all the programmers fretting/reassuring about replacement of their jobs completely oblivious to how introduction of automation without retraining means you're fucked when you gotta pay to keep a house

Yeah I don't think we would owe anything to an endlessly copyable, immortal consciousness that can effortlessly choose to forget about me. I could never make any meaningful impact on its existence.

The ai we have now is a statistical simulacrum that confuses us with familiarity. Actual conscious computer ai would have properties with unfathomable effects on consciousness.