0xmons ✝️
@xmon.eth
dave is one of the ppl i know who used llms a lot to refine ideas does anyone think current pace of growth is like net-beneficial feels like linear growth in capabilities would have been much better for our psyches instead we're in a world where ppl run into llm induced psychosis and our brains can't keep up
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PhiMarHal
@phimarhal
I think exponential growth is beneficial. The people suffering ego bruises here are a minority of the population. Most people are not intellectuals. Most people do not have much control over their own lives, really. This affects the privileged spheres of society, and the angst at play here boils down to "my privilege is going away". So, were we all just larping when we pretended we wanted a fair and equal and just world? (Probably, yes.) On the other side of the equation, you have the moonshots. What happens when we all TRULY "are in it together"? There's perhaps a better chance for humans to coordinate than ever - both our incentives will be better aligned than ever, and AI itself could prove to be better governors than us. I don't believe humans will solve climate change on their own. We are on a crash course with extinction if left to our own devices. Gambling on the God Machine strikes me as our best bet right now. Besides that, I'd rather live forever as a pet than die as a special snowflake.
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TheModestThief
@thief
Am not a serious researcher or mathematician etc, but am recently using LLMs to learn a lot of data analytics (both the math and the practical coding in python). I cannot imagine current pace of growth is bad, rate of learning is naturally capped, people will stop learning much earlier than the pace of growth can peak. If anything, social media is more damaging to our psyche than AI itself.
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
I think this type of post is the canary in the coal mine for (primarily but not exclusively) men’s mental health and, by proxy, relative global stability. Men are identified, categorized, and valued according to what they “do”. In effect, “what men do” helps everyone decide “who they are”. Men’s job are usually the main signifier of this, but their “productive” hobbies also play a big role in this legibilizing of themselves to the mirror and other people. LLMs already gut the bottom 50% of all “doers” sense of self and they’re steadily creeping up the self-actualization stack. Combine this with the fact that every major conflict and revolution was started by out of work, purposeless young men and it doesn’t bode well.
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horsefacts
@horsefacts.eth
The bird is okay even though he doesn’t understand the world. You’re that bird looking at the monitor, and you’re thinking to yourself, "I can figure this out." Maybe you have some bird ideas. Maybe that’s the best you can do.
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