derek
@derek
This was from a friend’s IG story. They’re not in tech. They’re not hopeful. They’re threatened. Like many of their peers. Get outside the bubble. Perspectives present opportunities.
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Treats
@treats
History tells us that those that hold power will use it to exploit the poor unless they are forced to do otherwise. Tech is made up of the rich. The rich just don’t care about the consequences for those underneath them. And society is aware of this dynamic. AI is simply the new language of extraction. The rich will sing of inevitability, while obfuscating the incentives. LLM’s themselves are a repackaging built on theft (see: ImageNet roulette) The future isn’t decided. The extractors have always, and will always use the language of inevitability to enforce their desires. There’s not much longer for the world to wake up and fight back. This is the generation where the powerful attempt to take total control
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derek
@derek
This is a victim mentality take which I reject whole-heartedly. 1. By many definitions, you and I are rich. But (hopefully) not evil. 2. There are many cases in history where those who hold power use it to lift up the poor. 3. Technology, like power and money, is morally neutral. You can use it to do good or evil.
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Treats
@treats
Nah not at all it’s just how Silicon Valley works and the nature of Venture Capital (refer to “the age of Surveillance Capitalism”, by Shoshana Zuboff) 1. I’m speaking to power dynamics that emerge within closed systems, not intentionally pulling in outside dynamics to obfuscate the point. 2. Absolutely, though that’s not how history works at scale, and regulation exists because citizens in every society learn better than trusting the wisdom of the elite. 3. Totally true. But those who create technology have incentives, and are profit seeking. And they sell the public those incentives as if they are the technology itself. Before LLM’s it was “oh we have to take your data, privacy is a thing of the past. This is just the slow march of history” Hiding the fact that it was a chosen business model of self enrichment that could be stopped entirely if the public woke up to the nature of the model.
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