"As you can clearly see on this chart I made of the value I put on things, the value I put on my own work is the highest, and the rest of you are very low, and you should feel bad that I don't value your work! What are you going to do about it? Work harder? Haha, that will just make my value go up even higher!"
cecilkorik
joined 2 years ago
That is a joke alright. They won't last long without the entire system of civilization and human labor they rely on. They love the myth that they can reliably automate those systems. They can't, and they doubly can't against an adversary who intends on breaking those systems and then waiting for them at the exit of their underground bunker. Humans are endurance hunters. When its hunter vs hunter, all the money and preparation in the world (which they might literally have) isn't going to do a goddamn thing to save them from sheer numbers and determination. Together, we are too strong. This is why they try to divide us. But nothing unites us like a common enemy.
In terms of health risk, not intentionally putting chemicals into your lungs that haven't been prescribed by a doctor is best, but non-disposable vapes are a good harm reduction strategy for those who can't get out of the compulsive habit.
"I work this hard, everyone should work this hard!" -- someone has no idea what hard work is.
Fuck that. Be loud. As much as they want to convince you you have no power and they've already won, in fact, power remains, and always has been, with the people. We are the people. Be loud, be obnoxious. Use your power.
It's much different because you can fire your salespeople for failing to consult with the engineering team, promising shit that is impossible, going to damage your brand and reputation, and provide little-to-no return on investment.
The biggest difference is that you can't fire ChatGPT (as much as I desperately wish we could)
It will be hardly any work once a law passes, because they'll make sure it is. Everyone knows where the proprietary code is. It doesn't just get merged in "by accident" unless you are a really shit developer (and to be fair some are).
Besides, no one is saying they have to open source it. To be honest, the outcome from this petition that I would most like to see is simply a blanket indemnity to the community attempting to revive, continue and improve the software from that point forward. If the law says that it's legal once a software is shut down, for the community to figure out a way to make it work again and make it their own, and puts no further responsibilities on the "rights holder" at all, I think that honestly solves the problem in 99% of cases. It would be nice if they gave the community a hand, released what they could, and tried not to be shit about it, (and I know some of them will be shit about it, but we're pretty resourceful), as long as they're not trying to sue every attempt into oblivion I think we'll make a lot of progress on game preservation and make the gaming world a much better place.
My point is, even without AI, if all AI were banned tomorrow, all the data centers shut down, what we're doing to the environment WITHOUT AI is most likely going to kill us all and render the Earth uninhabitable, possibly within 100-200 years. It is, as far as science's ability to predict, the end of the human race and almost all life on Earth. People thinking we'll adapt, or that we can just go live on other planets or space stations after this one is destroyed, or that we'll magically find out a solution and have the technological means to fix it, are all frankly delusional and their wishful thinking is unsupported by current climate science and space science.
My point is we can't stop fighting for the environment and throw it under the bus just because AI is the new threat of the day. If you truly believe "the world has already decided it doesn't care about the environment" then there's no point fighting AI or fighting for anything anymore, because if that is the case then we're straight up doomed, humanity is cooked (literally), the game is over, might as well have fun on the way out.
My point is that if you intend on humanity having any future, both these things need to be fought. You can't claim defeat on one and still fight the other, there's no point and you're wasting your time because the other will get you. They're both utterly existential threats, and either one is as completely fatal as the other.
Do you think it's more important to make the world care about AI or to make the world care about the environment?
The "front line" is irrelevant when either one is an existential threat on its own. You can't just redirect your forces to one side. You argue we should make a strong "front line" in front of AI, while we are being overrun from behind by the environment. It doesn't matter that people don't care about it, it's still going to kill us.
The rules will be the same as they always are: First Come First Served, and Might Makes Right.
If you are burning yourself often enough that it's impacting your water bill, you're worrying about the wrong thing.
They don't really understand anything because they don't really think. They just repeat what they're told while convincing themselves its an independent thought that appeared in their head as if by magic. These are the people outsourcing most of their thinking these days to ChatGPT, because it's not something they've ever really valued or been interested in doing themselves. Life's a lot easier when you don't have to think about much. They're "doers" not "thinkers". And frankly, it shows. We see an awful lot of stuff getting done right now, and very little thinking.