downshift 🎧

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according to the media, we're somehow always 3 days away from a vague but apocalyptic cataclysm that never seems to arrive

don't buy into the bullshit.

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social media be like:

THIS WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE FOREVER

and then it's like a nasal strip or something lol

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if you are a software engineer and had to start using AI from zero today, what would you do?

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the most radical thing you can be today is bored

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Stockholm Syndrome on a new level?

[BORED @BoredElonMusk]

A bunch of people who don’t have real jobs are spending all day being activists against AI because it will destroy all jobs.

Also, shouldn’t they want a thing that will allow even more of them to not work? Since they don’t or can’t anyway?

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carrying yourself with confidence adds at least 3 points to your attractiveness

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@MasterX093 absolutely! but beyond the tools it's the effect they have on everything around them, too

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there's a flavor of AI anxiety that's not nearly apocalyptic dread but just a lingering background fear of not being able to keep up

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a really good token prediction algorithm is going to achieve "takeover", or what could 'motivate' it to do so..

are we being fooled by the appearance of apparent but illegitimate sentience?

the risks center squarely on AI at the direction of HUMAN bad actors.

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even the people working on AI don't understand it, but lawmakers are supposed to REGULATE it? (and on what grounds?)

no one among us understands consciousness, yet we take as inevitable that our machines will achieve it (and imminently!) 🤷🏻‍♂️

i still fail to grasp how 👇

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@saintsonso @backseats_eth strong possibility.

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@backseats_eth i can't bring myself to believe him, and still fail to grasp how a really good token prediction algorithm is going to achieve "takeover", or what could 'motivate' it to do so

are we being fooled by the appearance of apparent but illegitimate sentience?

[downshift 🎧 @0xdownshift]

@backseats_eth i can't bring myself to believe him, and still fail to grasp how a really good token prediction algorithm is going to achieve "takeover", or what could 'motivate' it to do so

are we being fooled by the appearance of apparent but illegitimate sentience?

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no one would hesitate to agree that dreams exist entirely within consciousness, but they get cagey if you say that "reality" does. just imagine waking up one more time, like Inception

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@GSkrovina cc @obvious @bleuonbase seems germane?

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@signulll i used to have somewhat cutting-edge takes on AI and now feel like a clown 🫠

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@signulll damn.

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there's a flavor of AI anxiety that's not nearly apocalyptic dread but just a lingering background fear of not being able to keep up

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@Shadow__Pro @signulll 🎯 this is already happening

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to "cure" people from forgetting things we literally put them on drugs that make them forget to eat

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@colfaxxx @Spotify they do on podcasts now!

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@FamKien "may i ask you a question?" vibes