• breecher@sh.itjust.works
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    6 days ago

    It’s like watching people get angry at the first steam engines that appeared.

    It is nothing of the sort. Steam engines served mostly useful purposes. AI mostly does not (at least not in an open world environment, it has excellent purposes in closed environments like medicine and science). The fact that it is indeed unstoppable does not make the outrage of its infestation of everything on the internet less, quite contrary.

    I genuinely worry about their mental health over the next few years

    I guess someone with their head in the sand, their fingers in their ears and screaming at the top of their lungs like you, will have an excellent mental health.