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 (DIR) Post #B7wYP5w2FEC6eseeyu by xgranade@wandering.shop
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       I reject entirely the implication that opponents of AI simply do not understand AI. I, for one, didn't get my PhD by intellectual laziness.https://cosocial.ca/@evan/116838869694493363
       
 (DIR) Post #B7wYP68RV67RHMSZJw by xgranade@wandering.shop
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       The more serious answer is that this effectively reduces to a "debate me, bro" stance. I emphatically and as a hopefully rational actor do not take the time to understand all the bad ideas that I am exposed to. That is a glorious waste of the time I could be using to come up with good ideas, and also a categorical misunderstanding of the burden of proof.That's not to say I won't ever do the work to understand opposition, as I said, I'm anything but intellectually lazy.(1/3)
       
 (DIR) Post #B7wYP6NKbk1q1XQSWm by xgranade@wandering.shop
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       It's more that you can't, as the AI boosters have done (and that very much so includes Evan as a soft booster), put out extraordinary claim after extraordinary claim, do *none* of the work to back that up with equally extraordinary evidence, then complain to the ref that opponents of AI  haven't done their work.(2/3)
       
 (DIR) Post #B7wYP6a5qIEkf7OeQ4 by xgranade@wandering.shop
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       It's even more the case that understanding bad ideas isn't my job when those ideas are rooted in hate and eliminationism. In the most extreme case, I do not need to deeply understand the finer points of Nazi philosophy and theology to rightly conclude that Nazis are bad.With AI, questions like "is this LLM alive and intelligent" are inherently rooted in eugenics. It is not my job to be fluent in eugenicist euphemisms before I criticize eugenicist movements.(3/3)