>Progress? There are loads of downsides the AI fans won't acknowledge.
I don’t know if this is true.
>It diminishes human value/creativity
I don’t see this at all, I see it as enhancing creativity and human value.
>and will be owned and controlled by the wealthiest people.
There are a lot of open source models being created, even if they are being released by Meta…
>It's not like the horse being replaced by the tractor. This time it's different there is no place to move to but doing nothing on a UBI (best case).
So, like, you wouldn’t do anything if you could just chill on UBI all day? If anything I’d get more creative.
> That same power also opens the door to dystopian levels of censorship and surveillance.
I don’t disagree with this at all, but I think we can fight back here and overcome this, but we have to lean into the tech to do that.
> I see more of the Black Mirror scenarios coming true rather than breakthroughs that benefit society.
I think this is basically wrong historically. Things are very seldom permanently dystopian if they’re dystopian at all. Things are demonstrably better than they were 100 years ago, and if you think back even a couple decades things are often a lot better.
The medical applications alone will save a lot of lives.
> Nobody is denying that it's impressive but the question is more whether it's good overall. Unfortunately the toothpaste seems to be out of the tube.
There are going to be annoyances, but I would bet serious cash that things continue to get better.
> So, like, you wouldn’t do anything if you could just chill on UBI all day? If anything I’d get more creative.
There is a lot of empirical research on UBI and all of it shows that it has very little effect on employment either way. That is, nothing will change here.
(This is probably because 1. positional goods exist 2. romantic prospects don't like it when you're unemployed even if you're rich.)
I don’t know if this is true.
>It diminishes human value/creativity
I don’t see this at all, I see it as enhancing creativity and human value.
>and will be owned and controlled by the wealthiest people.
There are a lot of open source models being created, even if they are being released by Meta…
>It's not like the horse being replaced by the tractor. This time it's different there is no place to move to but doing nothing on a UBI (best case).
So, like, you wouldn’t do anything if you could just chill on UBI all day? If anything I’d get more creative.
> That same power also opens the door to dystopian levels of censorship and surveillance.
I don’t disagree with this at all, but I think we can fight back here and overcome this, but we have to lean into the tech to do that.
> I see more of the Black Mirror scenarios coming true rather than breakthroughs that benefit society.
I think this is basically wrong historically. Things are very seldom permanently dystopian if they’re dystopian at all. Things are demonstrably better than they were 100 years ago, and if you think back even a couple decades things are often a lot better.
The medical applications alone will save a lot of lives.
> Nobody is denying that it's impressive but the question is more whether it's good overall. Unfortunately the toothpaste seems to be out of the tube.
There are going to be annoyances, but I would bet serious cash that things continue to get better.