AI cannot ontologically make mistakes. It just can’t.
This might be vaguely philosophical and trivial, but it’s relevant: the moment you accept in the general discourse that AIs make mistakes, is the moment you have already consigned yourself and embraced the narrative that humanizes those AIs.
You’ve shifted the context and now stand on faulty field. AIs follow instructions accurately, they may or may not satisfy the intended product, but are never wrong.
Precisely as expected AIs have now addled the brains (*) of an handful of tech overlords to the point of no return. This is something unprecedented in the history of humanity: never before so much collective effort and resources are focused on a single point: AIs. The same concept of “private property” that has addled our brains. If these individuals decide to pour all their money into one giant bet, then they have their rights to do it. It’s their own money. But it’s not, because these are collective human resources, in the actual real world. It’s all “our” money, that we collectively decided to gift these billionaries and trillionaries, because they are visionaries that will deliver us a better future. Same as in politics, we decide to consign collective power to individuals that we expect will lead us through their exceptional wisdom.
So, someone like Elon Musk, can now burn our collective trillions on his personal gamble. Because he can “afford” it.
There are layoffs everywhere. All technology not only has now stalled, but costs are increasing to absurd levels. Same as it’s absurd that an handful of individuals are so rich that they can single-handedly disrupt entire supply chains. The entire WORLDWIDE demand has been uprooted and supplanted by these individuals that buy everything through infinite resources, and where they cannot reach, corruption compensates.
All this doesn’t make any sense, logically, because when individuals do so much collective DAMAGE. In such a plain and objective, evident “fashion”, then politics steps in to regulate it.
But all this happens AFTER. After democracies have been wiped, after corruption became the rule. After we handed out so much power that individuals have just enough control to rig elections and manipulate. Just enough to bend the world to their own delusions. Just enough to seize the collective day, and shatter it into a wall.
The world is complex, so you need to be precise and divide problems into smaller pieces. People in the game industry look around and see layoffs everywhere. Hardware prices are destroying the whole sector. It’s all one giant FATALISM. We just cannot to anything do stop this. We can just watch it happen. Just like with Covid, we’ve accepted that we might as well get ill, and maybe die. Or be scarred for life.
It’s all the same cause. If people lose their jobs in the game industry, is because someone gotta feed all those AIs. It all one “market.” Because it’s all one world.
Consider all the people that the moon landing in 1969 never actually happened and is one giant conspiracy. The point is, it was one example of giant collective effort. Similar to Manhattan Project. Now we see what happens with something that dwarfs those scales. Now we see how it ends.
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Considering AIs as a mind-virus precisely built to destroy the minds of our richest people might sound quite similar to the “woke mind-virus”… because it is. One core concept of fascist propaganda is accuse your enemy of what you are planning to do. Trump accuses Democrats of cheating in the elections because he’s always has planned and is planning to do it. You can find countless examples. The problem here is that the suicidal tendencies of these individuals are applied to out collective resources. But if we decided to give everything we have to them, then we certainly deserve the apocalyptic outcome. We are collectively building our own deserved annihilation. Once again, enjoy the ride to the ultimate destination.
The reason why literally all these tech giants have sharply pivoted to fascism is simply because the right-wing has evolved through core concepts that are easily exploitable. It all goes around the concept of egoism. The self, the private property, your own personal satisfaction. The right to personal freedom. Right or wrong, they are a lever, used as a tool to manipulate people where they are the most vulnerable. The personal space, the personal anxieties. A capitalist world, made into politics, so that could be exploitable. So that it could move people when they are weakest.