A few free speech defenders are consistently consistent about supporting it, but for the most part they are concerned about freedom of their favored speech. Even the ACLU has appeared to waffle a bit.
> “several individuals involved in incidents reported to police were already being tracked by Anthropic security.”
Comsider the tracking potential.
Now consider that they can perform textual analysis at a scale large enough to figure out who you are based on your linguistic fingerprints across HN, Meta, Github, forms you've filled out for you child's school, your doctor, or wherever else a service provider has used them.
These are "AI" companies but monitoring is what the AI is and will be used for.
America has a worse problem with it than Israel does, it sort of is America's problem. It's not the Israeli army taking lead or Israel's diplomacy taking a hit.
Ingesting since 8? Not advised for growing brains.
It's not that it's too strong. Anyone can take weak flower and make strong edibles pretty easily. It's just available.
Things that come to your attention as a fait accompli after your representatives sold you out under NDA are generally to be hated. If you see that the land was bought by straw purchasers, you saw deception at work. There's much in the way of underhandedness in various cases and as a member of those communities I'd be hating them on general principles.
Brings up the question of what the intelligence is used for. Humans exploited intelligence for competition. With each other to wipe out other Homo species, mate more and collect resources, with other animals to limit predator impact and gain food. Intelligence will be used offensively by corporations and their people to extract more from consumers (make pricing opaque, terms of service more complicated, etc.) and scams far more sophisticated. The "consumer" will need extra intelligence to fight all that off.
There are only so many meals you can expertly produce, shirts to fold, itineraries to fun places you can execute, but there's a practical infinity of traps to set and avoid.
> “Terrible,” he says. “Geologists are just as cliquish as AI nerds, with their own set of ingroup tells and shibboleths. And they won’t stop using the word ‘lode-bearing’!”
I fear that humans will start to speak in Claudish. Perhaps it's happened and I'm thankfully not in the loop.
A positive spin would be "hey, we went to war about it and got rid of it" (mostly, except for prisoners, and we can discuss what counts as punishment/penance separately). But that sort of runs aground on how clear the record is about what the Confederacy was for, and therefore what all the current pride in it says.
People have their priorities, and putting the data centers into their mix isn't what they asked for. To say "resource abusers think this is a resource abuse" isn't really a counter argument.
Similar principle as "cash back" credit cards: make everyone else pay more for you to get your points, if everyone does it, you and they pay about 3-4% more than they would with cash but they happily do so.
Without reading the article (also paywall), it's helpful to be woke because that's basically now just "caring about others in general, not just selfish" but not required. You could be a selfish racist socialist, for example socialist with respect to white straight christians but at war with muslims and gays.
If you have entered Gemini to try to figure out how to turn it off, you're also part of the cohort. A blast of gmail messages from Google has announced how it's part of everything and given instructions on how to find out the little you can do about it. Really, nothing.
A stopped clock is right twice a day, Zuck might be right about something for now. They didn't hate AI solely because of Zuck, they had many good reasons to regardless, and Z's embrace of its slop is a fine reason. And they have plenty of reason to loathe Zuck regardless of AI.
Maybe Zuck is right for now. But the instant he gets an advantage in rivals, he will change his tune. He's correctly on record as saying only dumbfcks trust him.
In the abstract, yes, things can be created through applying energy to matter (e.g. transforming land, timber, mortar, sand and metal into a house). Wealth via debt is the financial abstraction/technology, the things that pay the debt back involve energy or raw resource (land, water rights, mineral rights) somewhere.
Bitcoin is interesting, it doesn't generate wealth. It's more a store of wealth, cash in a currency people have wanted in on. When the price goes down, it subtracts wealth. It's just an abstraction that has caught people's attention.
How do you ever choose your boss at work? Never. Oh, by quitting that job and getting another? That's called "moving" when applied to politics. Which is super unattractive in much of regular life, unless you don't need people.
Why does anyone believe more tech makes less work? It makes different work, but the 50-hour week remains. More AI will never bring less work much less "abundance".
For a mutual insurance company, everyone is betting that it's going to happen somewhere sometime, that's why they pay the premiums. There is also not "winning" and "losing", there is no particular event like a known game, and you only get paid to cover a loss. You could squint and say it's taking 100:1 odds (or whatever your coverage-to-premium ratio is), but you have the incentive to play since if an event happens TO YOU, you really LOSE, and if you don't take a bet you just don't take the bet.
This is one of the huge problems with allowing betting. Of course, people could collude without the formal marketplace, but just as social media provides really painful detrimental cons along with its pros, so do betting platforms.