Gregory Conti

I am a political theorist and historian of political ideas.
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I have created this account to share my public writing. I write about free speech, university contretemps, political ideologies past and present, among other topics.

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How are such sentiments consistent with conservatism? The basis of conservatism should be to cherish and protect the present and its way of life, not roll the dice on untried experiments for the sake of "dynamism." (From @luke_nicastro's fine recent piece on AI and the Right).

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Kudos to Bernie for taking this stand. The more the public learns about the harms AI poses and the risks it presents, the more popular this position will become. Conservatives need to wake up and not leave the most important issue to the Left.

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Conservatism and rapid technological development -- and specificially the pursuit of AGI -- are mutually exclusive. If conservatives don't follow Bernie here, they will lose credibility.

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@brentmichaelcox to this? yes. obviously.

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@wizarelf 🙏

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When you use AI to write, you deny yourself the opportunity to learn what you really think and thus who you really are. You deny yourself a chance at self-discovery.

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I don't understand why more people don't find it viscerally awful to live in a world where all text, images, and music are no longer produced by human beings. This is an existential change that causes me sorrow every waking moment.

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@WaywardRabbler @luke_nicastro @amconmag 👏

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@GWHayduke97 Excellent work.

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@bradrcarson @compactmag 🙏

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AGI=fully-automated luxury communism, which means all that will be left to human beings is consumption, not achievement.

[Matthew Schmitz @matthewschmitz]

Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are working toward the abolition of capitalism
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AI will produce not great men, but Nietzsche's last men.

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A great irony of the present moment is that no one has a stronger conception of themselves as being "great men" than do the leaders of the tech right, and yet they are actively working to destroy the conditions in which great men can be produced.

[Fernando Borretti @zetalyrae]

This will be the central social problem of AI. Not "meaninglessness" but that AI steals from the talented any means they have to distinguish themselves through their talent. You either own compute or you don't.

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ALL GOOD QUESTIONS

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