The US is way behind on AI from a perf/dollar perspective and is rapidly driving the rest of the world off oil by disrupting supply chains.
I think we’ll see an even bigger economic reckoning in 2027-28, and then the pendulum will swing back. The Great Depression and Hoovervilles paved the way for the New Deal. Trump’s corruption and economic policies are likely going to be even more disastrous than that.
Hopefully we can pick up the pieces quickly and without the benefit of World Wars.
It’s also hard to develop taste in an environment flooded with content. I am not sure how much of that is AI writing getting better, and how much of that is just a lack of taste from the newest members
* people want stable answers from AI, which is pretty much regression to the mean
* there is a safety element in there, not agreeing with the user every time is easiest if large institutions are leant on, tempering the sycophantic behaviour may result in this kind of behaviour
I think the thing that needs a finger on it is really of trust, and the anthropomorphic appearance of AI versus, say, a newspaper clipping, billboard, or ad. AI with this “human like” appearance draws
* unearned trust from people who expect social queues correlate with humanity
* unearned skepticism from people who see this gap between social queues and actual “care” as totally cynical control and manipulation
We are also in this crazy post-free-money world, where everyone was exposed to almost free, quality tools through the 2010s. Call it democratisation for a spell. This article feels like part of the hangover from that. In the past, institutions had exactly this sort of power.
What mattered yesterday is not going to be what matters tomorrow. Support your local library! Build your own!
Perhaps you are unaware, but the great wave is a wood block print. That’s not to say that the strokes aren’t amazing, but they didn’t need to be created in one pass
I just feel like this problem is something where unfettered capitalism does not work. What we are discussing here is a public utility, and should be managed as such
This is an extremely popular view that recently has been disseminated and while based on fact, is emotional propaganda. It basically exists as a justification for Trump’ and this administrations actions, along the lines of “they’ve always done it, at least we don’t hide it” and gives them a combination of legitimacy and a strange sense of “doing the right thing”.
I understand that it’s true that the USA has been problematic in the past but in this case, the story being sold to people about the US “always” having been bad exists to convince people that there is no other way, and you either have to accept it or tear it all down. Interestingly both benefit the current administration
No, this is not “propaganda “ to justify anything Trump is up to.
The USA has not been “problematic”, it has enforced a particular ideology on the world with the rest of us unwilling participants.
The USA has repeatedly overthrown diplomatically elected leaders(Iran ironically being the best example, a democratic government toppled because it was stopping American business interests and democratising its oil resources) so the USAs ownership class can make their fortunes.
Sometimes , it has stopped elections, exterminated millions, set their villages on fire, because the people were picking the wrong ideology.
Yes those are all bad and you are naive if you think a USA that relishes brutality could not or would not be 1000x worse.
Militarily, the US can trivially eradicate entire countries. It is “only” our leadership and their sense of morals (imperfect and spotty as they are) that prevents this.
A USA run amok for a mere 4 days can literally end human civilization as we know it. One sentence uttered from the mouth of a contemporary POTUS can make the atrocities of WW2, Vietnam, OEF, OIF all look like charity projects.
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