Technology

I agree, and as I keep trying to point out to people in the U.S., I'm pretty sure the reason Trump is not even giving GOP loyalists emergency disaster money when something happens in their state, is because there's nothing left.

He literally put all of America's eggs in one basket because he (and Peter Thiel) thought/think if they just deregulate everything and keep throwing money at it as fast as possible they will win, and other countries will be coming to us to buy our AI.

Tbf they are definitely planning to use it for evil, not to make humanity better, but I still don't see why anybody would buy AI tech from the U.S.

I am wondering what happened in Brussels though, that made them say they're considering some deregulation.

Trump was also very pissy at all of the EU but apparently Brussels in particular really hurt his ego

AI is here to serve humanity, that’s where the value is, not to serve only a select few.

Mostly right now it is here to torture humanity with low quality slop. It literally can't do the things people claim it is capable of doing, no matter for whose benefit. It is just that some people benefit even if the output quality is significantly lower as long as they have enough people convinced that it is a viable replacement.

Bc you're paying attention and not sticking your head in the sand.

It feels like it bc they definitely are. I'm in Louisiana and just woke up to find out news my corrupt Governor is being accused of scheming to install a new senator so that he can then have them resign and take both Senate and governor seats for himself.

Report: President Trump and Gov Landry discuss U.S. Rep Julia Letlow as a potential challenger to Senator Cassidy in 2026 Republican primary

One of several examples of how Landry and Trump seem to be scheming together to be as corrupt as possible

Even for Louisiana that's a whole other level of corruption..not even the first Louisiana governor to do it, but the last one was in the 30s.

The last governor that was this blatant about corruption also had a personal vendetta against my city and tried to take it under siege using the national guard

Guess what else the current governor and his doge inspired task force are scheming

Teal boy has a bias alright, it's the lense of pure fucking evil and greed.

The only care I have for his opinion is to know it to actively do the opposite at every occasion in an effort to make the world a better place.

I'm not saying I believe its important, the president believes it's important bc Thiel has been funding him and making policy decisions since his first term, most people (myself included) just didn't notice it until the second one.

The first time, he tried to promote AI deregulation while insisting we would retain American values that helped us be better than China's surveillance state, but then Trump lost power and Thiel lost 4 years of progress at the global AI table because of those values (democracy and the constitution). Now that he's gotten his seat back he's not going to risk ever letting it go. IF he ever intended to try to maintain or respect those values before, he certainly doesn't now.

That is why the truth behind Trump/JD Vance/Adrian Vermeule's argument for a constitutional interpretation of strong executive authority needs to be made loud and clear.

I cannot comprehend how anyone who is not already a billionaire could be dumb enough to support this, but let's just be honest about what you're supporting.

Surprise - people saying things you like are not your friends any more than people saying things you hate.

Surprise - people saying things you hate are not your enemies any more than people saying things you like.

Surprise - the words "socialist" and "capitalist" have no useful meaning at all. Specific solutions devised and offered as part of something "socialist" or "capitalist" are all over the place of the choice of instruments, with nothing uniting them along those lines other than how cover art aesthetics unite books.

And surprise - people saying ugly and dumb things might have a better idea of what they are doing than people who seem very fine. No connection at all.

I think Alex Karp and his colleagues are quite close to having a bunch of Starlinks and AI-powered combat drone networks covering all the globe. Maybe with some commercial stuff working similarly. The future might be theirs. Yep, that's a very raw and stupid application of computing power and it's dystopian, but what gets deployed IRL matters more than elegance.

Also this is in the context of USA giving Israel a kick in the butt, so maybe it's not such bad news that they are getting involved with Arab monarchies and not, say, with Turkey or Russia.

I think it could be life changing, but true progress will take time, like any tech. There's a reason most scientists know you can't just throw money at something and just make it work. That's why technocracy and the idea of chosen elite is so fucking dumb.

Imagine if in the 80s we had just said ok, Steve Jobs did it. We're done here. We don't give any outside voices or ideas in tech a chance unless Jobs gives it the ok first. Imagine how much cool shit we would have missed out on if people hadn't just said fuck it I don't need all that money, I'll just make my own shit and make it work with what I have.

Innovation and progress does not flourish in a neatly controlled box, and most people that don't just buy other people's work know that. That's the real reason people started pushing for DEI. Not just bc it was the "PC" thing to do. It helps bring new perspectives which then leads to new ways of thinking and problem solving.

If you completely isolate AI you may get some cool shit but eventually if you just buy out the entire market to fit your singular vision you get repeating/boring and stale.

I'm pretty sure they think they're at a point where if they just keep throwing money at it, it will just start getting creative and update itself, but when it's as unreliable as it is, I don't see that happening anytime soon

It will hit the average person in ways they cant see, my firm isnt replacing retirements because they can be filled by AI. What was once a vital role has been downgraded to the point where it can be completed by an AI, their manager now handles the back office parts and AI escalationz which given their nature will reduce overtime. In a business unit of ~40 people 7 have retired without issue and there are no plans to replace the rest as they go.

Here in the US there really aren't any actual libs, and yes, the apparatus of our government is very much behind deregulation of AI, though I imagine some states will push back. The House of Representatives is currently trying to ban state-level regulation of AI for ten years by sneaking amendments into spending bills.

This douche is just angry because the EU is working on regulating AI, and that's a huge swath of the business worldwide. I'm grateful that the EU is actually moving regulation forward.

They're not pushing enough deregulation and enough backdoor bills, that's the problem.

There are huge issues with AI, namely its very negative effect on the environment as well as being trained on misinformation.

What do you mean? Everything I own is connected to the blockchain and I have NFTs hanging on all of my walls.

What an ignorant statement. Unlike other hypes, AI is far from dumb and has a lot of useful applications that could better the world.

What's dumb is the hyped up solutions everyone is talking about.

We should just wall off Florida (all my world improvement plans involve walling off Florida), stick them in there and then have the AI administer their lives, and see how long they last.