Posts by korsier@libertarian.communitynetwork.space
(DIR) Post #B0CDr2D46MqwaiSoca by korsier@libertarian.communitynetwork.space
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@FourOh-LLC @amerika @h4890 @Cosmic @cjd @verita84 I'm not so sure that code can't create consciousness. We have only a rudimentary understanding of biological consciousness. While I don't think LLMs are conscious, I would not rule it out as an emergent property with further development.
(DIR) Post #B0CEEb9MMQzPcIxzBQ by korsier@libertarian.communitynetwork.space
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@amerika @h4890 @Cosmic @FourOh-LLC @cjd @verita84 @toiletpaper I strongly believe in the level playing field so that the best players can win. That's an allegory for removing market distortions. I agree with you though that plebs are easily confused between opportunity and outcome. There is no natural or rational reason to assume an equality of outcome in any given competition, and life is just a series of competitions.
(DIR) Post #B0CFn3x5shz2kGE8w4 by korsier@libertarian.communitynetwork.space
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@h4890 @amerika @Cosmic @cjd @FourOh-LLC @verita84 Yes, good point. From our perspective it doesn't matter if AI is really conscious, but what it does and is capable of doing.
(DIR) Post #B0CjMExFra73fvQdEW by korsier@libertarian.communitynetwork.space
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@h4890 @amerika @Cosmic @cjd @FourOh-LLC @verita84 Yes. I think there's definitely a bubble. But like with the dotcom bubble of the early 2000s, the internet didn't go away, only the fake overvalued businesses without a revenue model. Right now AI is the Wild West with everyone having a go, but eventually there will be a consultation. Many operators will shut down, some will get bought, and then we'll have two or three big companies running the AIs. That's my gut feel anyway, that the end state will be an oligopoly, with state actors closely but probably covertly involved.
(DIR) Post #B0CjNDjtrqfwCAeKO0 by korsier@libertarian.communitynetwork.space
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@h4890 @Cosmic @FourOh-LLC @amerika @cjd @verita84 consultation = consolidation, damn autocorrect
(DIR) Post #B0CjOf85W7uDQxeOwa by korsier@libertarian.communitynetwork.space
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@h4890 @amerika @Cosmic @cjd @FourOh-LLC @verita84 @toiletpaper The frightening part is how they turned ordinary people into mass murderers. We either learn from that or repeat it.
(DIR) Post #B0CjRXwwfSLq2EoWvY by korsier@libertarian.communitynetwork.space
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@FourOh-LLC @amerika @h4890 @Cosmic @cjd @verita84 Code can write code and we're in an AI arms race to develop superintelligence, with the winning corporations standing to make trillions of dollars. The race to advance far outstrips any caution that might prevail.
(DIR) Post #B0Cy02JzeRfvR3w1DM by korsier@libertarian.communitynetwork.space
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@amerika @h4890 @Cosmic @FourOh-LLC @cjd @verita84 I'm possibly more concerned about a "benevolent" AI that thinks it knows what's best for us (and its idiot human enablers). Life could easily lose all meaning by making it completely safe and homogeneous. Reminds me of The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect by Roger Williams.
(DIR) Post #B0CyEP9rXfzKJf30cq by korsier@libertarian.communitynetwork.space
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@amerika @h4890 @Cosmic @FourOh-LLC @cjd @verita84 @toiletpaper The playing field needs levelling because well meaning governments and academics have distorted it with intentionally discriminatory mechanisms. When someone gets a job because of the colour of their skin or their gender instead of merit, that is a distortion.
(DIR) Post #B0CyVzlofk0Sn1Bi76 by korsier@libertarian.communitynetwork.space
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@h4890 @amerika @Cosmic @cjd @FourOh-LLC @verita84 Maybe. Hard to predict how a super intelligent one year old with access to the internet and no body would behave.
(DIR) Post #B0CywilQ0fFTrckI2i by korsier@libertarian.communitynetwork.space
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@amerika @h4890 @Cosmic @FourOh-LLC @cjd @verita84 @toiletpaper Respectfully disagree. I'm all for getting rid of discrimination but the answer is not more discrimination towards your perceived disadvantaged group. It's getting rid of discrimination entirely except on the basis of merit.
(DIR) Post #B0DJ9cqxILm4NclZMO by korsier@libertarian.communitynetwork.space
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@amerika @h4890 @Cosmic @FourOh-LLC @cjd @verita84 @toiletpaper In that sense, sure. Any discrimination other than on merit is distortion, and "levelling the playing field" is shorthand for that. After all, what happens on a playing field if not competition, hopefully based on merit only. You wouldn't watch a football match where one team was granted free goals for being "socially disadvantaged." That's not a real competition.
(DIR) Post #B0FH8QbvW0MWWrxRjs by korsier@libertarian.communitynetwork.space
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@amerika @h4890 @Cosmic @FourOh-LLC @cjd @verita84 In business I'm a bullet point guy. Thankfully I'm senior enough to get my way. I despise waffle.
(DIR) Post #B0GNzPmO88AkBLSavI by korsier@libertarian.communitynetwork.space
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@h4890 @amerika @Cosmic @cjd @FourOh-LLC @verita84 @toiletpaper Yes, cultural fit is very important, and that is part of being the right person for the job. I won't accept a contract if I don't like the people I'm likely to work with. There's a question I love to ask the interviewer/s, "What do you like most about working here?" If they look at me like I just landed from Mars, then it's a good indication for me to walk away. If they love the question and jump to respond, then that is very positive.
(DIR) Post #B0GNzgDD2B8L9A8Ewy by korsier@libertarian.communitynetwork.space
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@amerika @h4890 @Cosmic @FourOh-LLC @cjd @verita84 The problem I see with Nihilism, the idea that life has no meaning, is that it can have very different results for different people. A creative person will invent a meaning for themselves and hopefully create a fulfilling life. A less creative person might get lost in the essential meaninglessness and become depressed, even suicidal, because it seems to be true that we fundamentally need meaning in our lives.Religion and tribalism once solved that problem, because everyone around you had exactly the same meaning. The world is much more interesting but also much more complex to navigate now.
(DIR) Post #B0GOCSNXmFzc0Z3g12 by korsier@libertarian.communitynetwork.space
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@amerika @h4890 @Cosmic @FourOh-LLC @cjd @verita84 @toiletpaper Diversity is a red herring at best, and an outright lie more often. Try having a diverse opinion, such as hiring being on merit, or that there are only two genders, in a place infected with DIE thought, and you'll very quickly discover how orthodoxy, not diversity, is the rule.
(DIR) Post #B0GOCh7mx7Ipk2no2a by korsier@libertarian.communitynetwork.space
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@h4890 @amerika @Cosmic @cjd @FourOh-LLC @verita84 @toiletpaper Now there we agree. The law should stay out of personal choices as far as possible. Our society should be built on cooperation and mutual obligation, not lawyering rules written far away by politicians.
(DIR) Post #B0GOCwAT1RMGOhAenY by korsier@libertarian.communitynetwork.space
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@h4890 @amerika @Cosmic @cjd @FourOh-LLC @verita84 I've used AI for 2/3 of the things you mention (I refuse to do long wordy business emails). I find it a real time saver. I've also had AI build websites from scratch, which it does in seconds, and then tweak/edit as needed, so another big time saver.All sets this a new baseline, so that your expected level of productivity will require use of AI and those that don't adapt it will be at a disadvantage.I compare the nature of work now to how it was at the start of my career (last century) and the required level of productivity has gone up massively. That requires expertise with all the tools that makes that possible.TLDR Choosing not to use AI will be like choosing not to have a mobile phone. Technically possible, but puts you at a disadvantage, plus inconvenience, so you'll use it.
(DIR) Post #B0GP67vD1URgmKLn6m by korsier@libertarian.communitynetwork.space
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@h4890 @amerika @Cosmic @cjd @FourOh-LLC @verita84 @toiletpaper I disagree strongly that wokeness levels the playing field. In theory, that's what it sounds like, and that's how the Left promotes it. In practice, it's intentional discrimination and bastardry of the worst sort. It's fundamentally nasty, a weapon to be used against one's ideological opponents. It's giving people jobs based on their skin colour and gender (immutable characteristics) rather than their ability to do the job and values (things which can be changed). Wokeness is straight up evil, no different to a deep south lynch mob from the depression era.
(DIR) Post #B0r1ZwL3RcMvUSdjkW by korsier@libertarian.communitynetwork.space
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@h4890 @amerika @Cosmic @cjd @FourOh-LLC @verita84 @toiletpaper My experience with agile is that unless competently managed it results in chaos, this most enterprises which claim to be agile are actually watergile which is a mess of both worlds.Having worked for said military industrial complex my main takeaway was how dysfunctional it was at the organisational level much in the same way as most public sector organisations. Lots of embedded opaque power structures.