JoshuaACNewman

JoshuaACNewman t1_je7ex0j wrote

With the exception of clothes, which are all handmade, humans in industrial situations do much dumber things than the craftspeople that were replaced by robots. Humans are used for having hands, rather than practicing a craft.

The issue here is *whose interests does the AI serve?” If it’s to serve the interests of now-automatable economic forces, humans are seen as expensive and inefficient.

Here’s a story about it. https://glyphpress.com/talk/2014/feral

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JoshuaACNewman t1_jbye0t1 wrote

If most of the time it’s advice that’s at least as good as therapeutic advice, and then it recommends self-harm because it’s what people do, it’s obviously not good for therapeutic purposes.

It’s not that even therapists don’t fuck up. It’s that AI doesn’t have any of the social structure we have. It can’t empathize because it has neither feelings nor experience, which means any personality you perceive is one you’re constructing in your mind.

We have ways and reasons to trust each other that AI can activate, but the signals are false.

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JoshuaACNewman t1_jby0lu4 wrote

Yes and no. Eliza did a great job, too, just by repeating things back.

The problem with ChatGPT is that it knows a lot but doesn’t understand things. It’s effectively a very confident mansplainer. It doesn’t know what advice is good or bad — it just knows what people say is good or bad. It hasn’t studied anything in depth; or, more accurately, it doesn’t have the judgment to know what to study with remove and what to believe because it only knows what people say.

I say this because, just like autocomplete was suggesting to Corey Doctorow the other day that he ask his babysitter “Do you have time to come sit [on my face]?” It doesn’t know what’s appropriate for a situation. It only knows what people think is appropriate for a situation. It’s appropriate to ask someone to sit on your face when that’s your relationship. It’s not appropriate to ask the babysitter. “Sit” means practically opposite things here that are similar in almost every way except a couple critical ones.

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JoshuaACNewman t1_j78266c wrote

What momentary increases there have been in violence among the general constant downtrend of violence as Boomers age out is directly attributable to gun access.

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JoshuaACNewman t1_j7820sb wrote

My friend, that is the direct (and knock-on) result of Bush’s No Child Left Behind program for defunding schools and its prioritization of education metrics over education.

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