Brandon

Machines should Work. People should Think

Discord: PixelCanuck

[Brandon @PixelCanuck]

I think I'm going to leave this account behind, it is time to move on

It's been nice, thank you if you've followed me this long and such

If you want to keep in touch, send me a message on Discord

Otherwise, if I don't see you again, all the best. Good luck out there everyone

[Brandon @PixelCanuck]

@McGowanJohnN Yeah in most contexts, the lone person being ganged up on is the "good one" because no one goes out of their way to pick fights against a group when they are alone

You only take fights against overwhelming odds when you're a hero

[Brandon @PixelCanuck]

@PsiXziScribe @spirodonfl @MattWalshBlog Go read some history

[Brandon @PixelCanuck]

@AIandDesign Coward

[Brandon @PixelCanuck]

AI is contributing to this decline, so if you really do love it, you're part of the decline problem

[⭕ AI & Design (Marco) @AIandDesign]

I often feel insanely privileged that I got to be a kid in the 1980s and a young adult in the 1990s because I feel those were the golden age of modern civilization. Right now we’re just in a decline and I don’t see that decline ending any time soon.

Don’t get me wrong I love AI and other modern tech but those days were the best. Not a freaking worry in the world.

[Brandon @PixelCanuck]

@RoseSilicon Yeah all signs are it's gonna be *bad*

[Brandon @PixelCanuck]

@corsaren This all lines up with my experience, both with management consultants and LLM Chatbots

Lots of noise, lots of flailing, mostly crap that should be ignored

Oh well. I'm not important enough anywhere to ever have influence enough to convince anyone to ignore it so ... eh

[Brandon @PixelCanuck]

@spirodonfl @MattWalshBlog Do you deny that the end goal of AI and Automation is to completely remove human intervention?

[Brandon @PixelCanuck]

And "We don't need humans at all" should terrify you

Go look up what happened to horses after we replaced them with the automobile

Here's a hint: Many of them didn't exactly live out the rest of their days in a field, peacefully enjoying their lives with every need fulfilled

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

No. AI is not at all like going from a carriage to a car. Both the carriage and the car needed a human to drive them. It’s just that with the car the human is going faster and farther. AI removes the human from the equation completely. That’s what people aren’t grasping. This technology is different in kind from anything else that has ever existed or ever been invented in the entire history of humanity. Prior to this, we invented better tools for humans to use. Now the tool has its own brain and doesn’t need humans at all.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

No. AI is not at all like going from a carriage to a car. Both the carriage and the car needed a human to drive them. It’s just that with the car the human is going faster and farther. AI removes the human from the equation completely. That’s what people aren’t grasping. This technology is different in kind from anything else that has ever existed or ever been invented in the entire history of humanity. Prior to this, we invented better tools for humans to use. Now the tool has its own brain and doesn’t need humans at all.

[Brandon @PixelCanuck]

But let's be real, it is much, much more likely that we'll get massacred before we get UBI

[Brandon @PixelCanuck]

This does seem like a very likely outcome

Nothing is 100%, of course

But I pretty strongly agree that this is a very likely outcome

And what comes after 10 people become Trillionaires is the rest of us become obsolete

The best we can hope for us UBI

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

People say that we shouldn’t worry about AI wiping out jobs. The jobs will just change, they say. But the whole point of AI is that it removes the human component entirely. The jobs aren’t going to change. They’ll just disappear. AI will make like 10 people into trillionaires. Almost everyone else will be screwed. Mass unemployment. Millions of workers rendered irrelevant all at once. That’s what’s going to happen. Not maybe. Not might. It’s going to happen. And it doesn’t seem like we’re doing anything at all to prepare for it.

[aaron @aarondotdev]

LLMs leave lots of comments because they write shitty code

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

This is such a dumb objection. First of all, many of the warnings and dire predictions about industrialization and automation absolutely DID come to pass. Second, even if they didn’t, that doesn’t mean the critics are wrong about AI. “People falsely predicted that a certain technology will harm humanity therefore no technology will ever harm humanity” is basically the argument you’re making. Very dumb.

[Samantha LaDuc @SamanthaLaDuc]

It’s a RECESSION INTO ALL TIME HIGHS… for Main St

The AI cycle drives nominal GDP higher and Wall St higher, but that is only driving the high-end consumer spending in the high-end segments of the economy.

Re-acelleration for the Haves but NOT the Have-Nots

#InflationaryAssets

[Brandon @PixelCanuck]

They have been trying to bait us with this 4 day work week fiction for years now.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Nvidia, $NVDA, CEO Jensen Huang says AI will ‘probably’ bring 4-day work week

[Analytic Valley Girl Chris @ChrisExpTheNews]

My grandmother was on the Manhattan project fresh out of school with a BS, and worked with von Braun after that. I need a full masters with a research thesis to teach literally 9th grade science standards to nursing students at the community college. We've lost the plot

[Brandon @PixelCanuck]

@loodberries Nope unfortunately not

[Brandon @PixelCanuck]

Genuine question: What fight is there to have?

I agree that we should be doing everything we can but, without going into the realm of real physical violence I don't see how we push back on this in a productive way

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

It's weird that we can all clearly see how AI is about to wipe out millions of jobs all at once, destroy every artistic field, make it impossible for us to discern reality from fiction, and destroy human civilization as we know it, and yet not one single thing is being done to stop it. We aren't putting up any fight whatsoever.

[Brandon @PixelCanuck]

@loodberries Okay. I'm in. How do I get involved with building this