A ladder of assertions about abilities of your rival X
1. X can’t do it
2. X can do it, but not as well as us
3. X can do it as well, maybe better, but not innovate
4. X can innovate, but only incremental, not bold leaps
5. X can bold-leap but no moral compass so will fail
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The interesting is that X = China and X = AI are basically identical arguments. By the time you get to Stage 5, you’re essentially arguing “the gods are on our side”.
There’s a Stage 6 after you’ve already lost:
6. The indomitable _________ spirit
Blank = [human, western] etc
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very interesting, I've long been a fan of trying to gain understanding/value from viewing other humans acting as basically AI (G or no G...), e.g. Uber drivers are their proto-#selfdriving cars asf.
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I had a guest blogchain by James Vanie going on exactly this idea. Sadly he abandoned it. He had a great historical take going back to all Pullman conductors being called George and economic construction of black identities back to slave era and turking. ribbonfarm.com/series/infinit
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Now I'm also thinking of the "white guy frontman in China" syndrome where they hire random white tourist guy to serve as investment front-end to sell western financial institutions on china investments.
Subtle forms of turking are all around us all the time.
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