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Somewhat ironically, yes. I think actually-existing AI (= social media algorithms) are probably large net harms, so nuking Facebook from orbit would be good. I don’t think “AGI” (which no one can explain) is imminent, but if it somehow happened, it would probably be bad.
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I’m basically AI-accelerationist. Floor the gas, solve actual bad consequences as they come up, ignore incoherent constructs like “AGI” and ill-posed general anxieties like “alignment” I don’t think AI as it exists is bad. It’s just made existing badness elsewhere unsustainable.
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I probably should have said “adtech” rather than “social media” although they’re siamese twins. Legacy media deserved to die, but adtech has made the replacement mostly even worse (imo). Much anti-social-media moral panic is misplaced but the web is degrading rapidly afaict
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I view it as a sort of "debts coming due" tech... accumulated socio-cultural debts since ~1971 being suddenly reflected back at us in an unflattering mirror. To the extent adtech-AI is a part of the "mirror", it's relatively simple. The mirror is starting to get creative now.
I adopt a roughly gilbert-ryle-ish posture and consider the adtech discourse philosophical nonsense based on a sort of ghost-in-the-machine cartesian theater delusion... no demons in web-tech that weren't in our collective psyche first.
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