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  • Eugene Buchananeugeneb50@mastodon.social
    Oct 18, 2026, 4:16 PM

    We need to be more like China why? Burnie Slander's law wants to throw the little guy in jail for 20 years for owning his own compute by running uncensored distilled open source models locally. Corporate doesn't want competition to the brolagarchies rented surveillance model. This is the industry trying to scare the uninformed in to accepting regulation that locks in their monopoly is more like China. 1996 internet bill in a historical parallel.

    fun?
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  • No Fate: Butlerian Jihad Nowglitzersachen@hachyderm.io
    Oct 18, 2026, 9:36 PM

    @Natasha_Jay

    Same here. I think I have among 500 colleagues around only 2 to 4 (one of them me) who dare to say "that's definitely the wrong way, people you're just betting the shop on an impossible future that very very likely won't happen"

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  • Lord Caramac the Clueless, KSCLordCaramac@discordian.social
    Oct 18, 2026, 5:25 PM

    @Natasha_Jay @trending_bot AI will only kill us all if autonomous superintelligence actually happens. I don't know whether there will ever be enough compute on this planet to make it happen. We're already hitting the limit of what the global semiconductor industry can deliver, otherwise RAM, GPUs, SSDs, HDDs, etc., wouldn't be so scarce and expensive now because the producers would just increase their production.
    I'm much more worried about humans using AI to kill other humans, to spy on them, to keep them under control. And it's not generative AI like LLMs or video generators I'm worried about, those just flood the internet with all kinds of nonsense. I'm more worried about autonomous flying robot swarms hunting down people that the system deems dangerous.
    You see, AI needs us. There are still many situations in the real world where robots are still pretty useless. The best robotic hands cannot do everything a human hand can. You still need a few humans to manufacture all the hardware, even if much of the process it automated.

    The real danger isn't the technology per se but the unintended ecological and cultural side effects of using all of our technologies on an industrial scale. Ever since the beginning of modern Capitalism, we've been destroying the world, driven by the need for economic growth. Those people who want to know have known since at least 1972, when "Limits to Growth" was first published, that we were headed for complete collapse somewhere around the middle of the 21st century if we couldn't stop the global economy from growing and steer it towards some kind of steady state. That, however, never happened because Capitalism doesn't work when it cannot grow anymore, and after the Eastern European economy went bankrupt and the Soviet Union fell apart, Capitalism had "won".

    Well, the Industrial Age is collapsing all around us, it only happens so slowly that people over a certain age can just ignore it, it will still outlast them. I don't know whether it could ever have become sustainable since the way we modern humans think about ourselves and our role in the universe is so utterly delusional and completely detached from the fact that we are still and always will be part of the ecology, large omnivorous terrestrial mammals; the metabolism of modern civilisation, our collective global use of power and materials, is so high that it is simply too big for this planet. It will shrink dramatically, one way or another, probably driven by chaos and catastrophe rather than planned and controlled. AI will play a role in that, but a much smaller one than most people think.

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