Dear internet,
It is entirely possible to be concerned about ALL the following AI related issues
💫 SIMULTANEOUSLY 💫
👉 Power grabs by authoritarians, especially governments
👉 Anarchists using it for chaos
👉 Losing control of recursively improving agents
👉 Dumb regulation stifling good innovation
👉 Algorithmic bias, addiction & coercion
👉 Fear-baiting & excessive pessimism/doomerism
👉 Short-term $ incentives conflicting with long-term goals
👉 Excessive worship of CEOs
👉 Acronym ideologies creating cult-like behaviour
👉 Civil instability from rapid job displacement
These concerns are *not* mutually exclusive! Nor is this list exhaustive!
My point is, while you can (and SHOULD) personally care about some over others, that doesn’t mean others can’t have different priorities than you. In fact, it’s GOOD if humanity is diversified in its efforts to navigate its transition to the AI age. But we have to each train our minds to hold some % of mental space for each of these problems concurrently, else we become idiot absolutists who just make everything worse.
Of course trade-offs exist, and attention is finite, but this growing trend of AI demagogues who view memespace purely as a zero-sum battle ground, blindly declaring that *their* pet concern is more important than all others, who relentlessly straw-man anyone who disagrees, is frankly embarrassing for AI.
Pay attention to which accounts do this as their primary tactic in their feed. And ESPECIALLY pay attention to the ones doing it within your own tribe, because that’s where your biggest blind spot will likely lie (note to self Liv!)).
As comforting as their certainty makes you feel, they are not serving you, nor humanity.
are we about to enter a "post-SaaS era"?
@dhh explains the pendulum swing:
-- SaaS was amazing initially
-- now, companies are paying out the nose for what are essentially commodities
-- subscription fatigue + biz software being solved = opportunity for one-time payments