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  • zd9@lemmy.worldtoProgrammer Humor@programming.devDo not use ai
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    16 days ago

    Nah. The math is all the same, the models can be the same, it’s all just the application. We don’t like AI applied to bullshit capitalist profit driven goals, but those exact same models are being used to tangibly improve the world in other applications.

    It’s like saying hammers are evil because people can murder people with hammers, which is ignoring the entire industry of construction workers. It’s just in the case of AI, it’s way more powerful than a hammer, so the implications are much larger depending on the application.


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    I see what you’re saying, but they’re all on a continuum and it just depends where your perspective window lies. I could see AI as foundational to many new technologies in the future.

    I agree we should shelf any AGI or ASI (which supposedly doesn’t exist yet), however I think AI has many tangibly beneficial applications. The problem comes from the incentive structure of the Epstein class and their investments into surveillance and profit extraction.



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    I’ve been an AI researcher for 12 years. Generative AI also has many applications that tangibly improve the world. For example, I’m using diffusion models for super resolution of surface wind fields to forecast wildfire propagation. It’s not “just” generative AI that’s the problem. The exact same transformers or CNNs used for Capital to try to finally triumph over Labor can also be used to do all kinds of amazing things.

    My point is that the incentive structure is fucked. It’s just more apparent with a powerful and widely known technology like “AI” these days.










  • I’ve been saying this all over, but here’s my predictions:

    • Send in ICE goons to prevent people from voting in many swing Democratic places. When the people start to protest and push back, NSPM-7 will have labeled them all “domestic terrorists” so they’ll face huge prison terms, or just be shot on the spot “out of self defense” or some shit. As of Aug 12, 2026 they’ve recently said they’ll do this.

    • Try to foment some terrorist attacks or stage some false flag attacks themselves at polling places or counting stations as a pretext to seize voting machines/ballots.

    • Work with Musk and Thiel to sabotage the systems themselves (much like Musk possibly did in 2024, I’m not saying that’s a hard fact but there has been enough fuckery to do hand recounts). They’ve had access to the machines’ operating systems since 2021, more than enough time to develop exploits. They have back doors all over the federal government now through DOGE. They have voter rolls from many states. They are dismantling election security agencies and policies.

    • Use the war (pick any war, maybe a new one by that point) to cancel elections all together and even though Democratic states will hold elections, Republican states will not, so he’ll have SCOTUS rule it an incomplete election and therefore invalid or something

    • ???: Some other completely batshit insane thing that I’m not evil enough or too sober to come up with.