• Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    8 days ago

    I can, at most, solder together an led. I am not going to be making any self-teaching industrial robots any time soon. The only way this llm shit is going to effect me is making me miserable.

    • DPRK_Chopra [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      8 days ago

      Yeah. This is honest. I’m constantly flipping from excited to horrified by the implications of this honestly. It’s like a thought experiment where humans are given alien tech before they’re ready to wield it. Or maybe it’s like, “what if the nazis were the first to develop nukes?”

      I think we need to kinda go through the stages of grief so we can stare this problem in the face, and right now we’re still in the denial for the most part. We hyperfocus on the dumbest elements of it, like Googles failed rollout recently, to assuage our anxiety.

      Like, I don’t even know what this does to ideas like the labor theory of value if we get replaced by machines. I’m too focused on survival to deal with the philosophy of it.

      I just hope China can wield it responsibly before the US. They’re on track to be able to for several materialist reasons like less financialization and more diverse and newer power grid.

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
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        8 days ago

        labor theory of value

        At some point it turns in to the bad future from terminator as the capitalists build death robots to exterminate an unwanted and dangerous working class.