"AI will create jobs instead of destroying them."
"AI will solve the climate crisis despite doubling or tripling humanity's energy footprint."
At some point it became acceptable to lie to the public with a straight face.
Bullshit interviewers are only the newest change to the hiring process that has been upended by the advanced bullshit. With HR teams dwindling and hiring managers bullshitted to bullshit thousands of applicants for a single role, they’re optimizing their jobs by using Bullshit to filter top applicants ...They aren't penalized at all for lying, and not lying is a massive loss of potential profit. So then, why not lie, is their logic.
This doesn't mean climate change isn't a problem, because even with this progress, we're way behind and not moving nearly fast enough. But often it's the green side of the spectrum that's lying by catastrophizing and understating progress, while overstating the severity of what's happening.
It's happening similarly with AI, where the green movement has decided that AI is unacceptable, even though it has a tiny ecological footprint compared to activities like watching Netflix or eating nuts, let alone eating beef or flying on a plane.
Doesn't seem like a bright future, but at least AI does have a chance of solving the problem while contributing to it. No other behavior could really say the same.
In fact, it's kind of the opposite of what you say—everyone is contributing fractionally to the solution. This is what climate doomers miss.
My position is that that is all theatre, that even if we do achieve that it will be temporary (nth industrial revolution, nuclear war, etc), and that we will eventually be the cause of our own worldwide collapse-- all while thinking we have control to the very end.
Why feel sad when can feel happy. Me dummy.
What's so insulting about Coinbase here is they are not even trying to make their lies sound plausible anymore.
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