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I suppose opinionated people on the internet and ideological consistency have never exactly gone hand-in-hand.

> Like the boring fence-sitter I am, I think it will have a mix of positive and negative effects.

Definitely the correct way to think about AI, but "nuanced and reasonable" is not the way of internet debates, sadly.

It's fair to think there will be positive effects and negative effects. The next question should be "for who?"

If the majority of the positive effects of AI are privatized and captured by people who are already wealthy, and the majority of the negative effects are socialized and felt by the poor, then I still think the correct position for most people is to be strongly against AI

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