been working on this for awhile, rly happy with it. had to fight myself not to sound defensive.
about my fave movie her, gender, agency, & gendered labour transferring onto virtual assistants
https://t.co/nOax7j09iY
@shannonyangsky i went thru the interview process with aisi & was stunned by the level of proactive communication, especially considering all comms are thru a portal! it made me realize that should be the standard, instead of applicants begging for update crumbs
He's not just defending AI energy use. He is smuggling in a whole anthropology where humans are basically inefficient meat computers that you have to pour food and years into before they become useful. And once you accept that, the next move is obvious. If people are just costly biological training runs, then burning mountains of electricity to build synthetic intelligence starts to feel not only equal, but superior, even if it negatively impacts actual humans.
That is the dystopian. It makes human development sound like a bug in the system, and it makes sacrificing human and creational flourishing for more computational power sound logical. To him, the grid gets strained, prices go up, ecosystems get hit, but hey, humans eat too, so what's the difference?
The difference is that humans aren't an inefficient line item. They're the point. If your worldview can look at a child growing into an adult and describe it as energy spent to train intelligence, you haven't said something profound. You've revealed a horrifically rotten worldview.
i interviewed myself about ai & ai safety! got into why i'm afraid, why i want to anyway, and how i believe the field could be improved. part reflection part critique part just sending out signals
https://t.co/XZoSXFtinl
the lion is the slightest bit concerned that it seems the endgame of technology has been to merge woman with machine, giving man a fantasy of total control, of turning the unknowable feminine into something programmable and obedient
i do feel like a truer version of myself. but this constant (yet effortless) hamster wheel of self improvement through good skin, clothes that always seem to be Exactly what i've subconsciously wanted, specialty stores for that hobby i've always wanted to try, is quite spooky
spent the last two months in korea - insane to live somewhere where looking like and becoming the person you want to be in your head is inexpensive & accessible, for better or for worse
@jasminexli !!!! i feel so much imposter syndrome because of this - like i'm not committed enough to the cause (in its formal definition) because i can't stop thinking about the average person whose lives are impacted Right Now
I’m never optimistic, because we know the oppressor we are dealing with. But if even for a moment, the joy in these children’s faces light the night’s sky
@sebkrier w the current deployment of ai it's hard to separate motivations for automation & eroding economic/social infrastructures. i struggle to believe innovation's being done in good faith - people know its causing unnecessary suffering, they just dont care (or they benefit off of it)