> They don't strike me as being any different than the people constantly writing articles about how AI is going to leave everyone penniless and redundant.
Stephen Hawking for example expressed concern about the combination of automation and our current trends, AI or not, as well. Would you call him, and other people like Joseph Weizenbaum, luddites, too?
> I see no problem after reading that entire article calling [..] the author of the next AI scare-mongering article a Luddite
So you already made your mind up about the author of an article they didn't even write, and you haven't read. Or might I say, you destroy it pre-emptively for fear of what it might bring. Isn't sophistry wonderful?
You smear wholesale anyone raising any $placeholder concerns about technology or AI going forward, even bundle them together with a terrorist -- but would not mention names exhaustively, even if you could, because it would include a lot of people you might pay lip service or real admiration to. So the people that are uncomfortable because they are veritable titans of science and intelligence, and social and historical awareness and responsibility, I might add, they simply get ignored, because you can't easily smear them (yet). Then we take any random article that and that serves as example for all of it, case closed. Yeah, no.
"It sounds like", they "strike you" [as no different from a whole category of people many of which who are vastly different from each other, no less], and they "maybe had a point", but you're not saying what, and at the end of the day, you'll still lump it all together, with your vantage point from the right side of history. This isn't even nothing. This is just embarrasing.
I find this generally very fascinating, arguments that a kid could poke holes into. Like this recently:
> User-facing software is about politics the same way architecture (like for buildings) is political: sure there is a lot that software and buildings can do to make people do one thing instead of another, but they don't change the fundamental things that drive us.
Not even political parties "change the fundamental things that drive us", yet they're clearly super political. But it doesn't matter what any of it actually means, only the displayed orthodoxy of unthink and obedience does, that's sealed with approval no matter how inane. Actually, being more inane shows more loyalty, so in a sense that's encouraged. Which absolutely is a form of politics by the way, a rather sinister one as well, especially when it comes in the guise of being unbiased and unpolitical.
How would one call a person afraid of thought? You know, the branch technology is sitting on? "Noophobia" from passing glance seems like it could have been claimed by esoteric peeps, but other than that, it's a good word. If the glove fits, you must not allow a goosestep gap.
Stephen Hawking for example expressed concern about the combination of automation and our current trends, AI or not, as well. Would you call him, and other people like Joseph Weizenbaum, luddites, too?
> I see no problem after reading that entire article calling [..] the author of the next AI scare-mongering article a Luddite
So you already made your mind up about the author of an article they didn't even write, and you haven't read. Or might I say, you destroy it pre-emptively for fear of what it might bring. Isn't sophistry wonderful?
You smear wholesale anyone raising any $placeholder concerns about technology or AI going forward, even bundle them together with a terrorist -- but would not mention names exhaustively, even if you could, because it would include a lot of people you might pay lip service or real admiration to. So the people that are uncomfortable because they are veritable titans of science and intelligence, and social and historical awareness and responsibility, I might add, they simply get ignored, because you can't easily smear them (yet). Then we take any random article that and that serves as example for all of it, case closed. Yeah, no.
"It sounds like", they "strike you" [as no different from a whole category of people many of which who are vastly different from each other, no less], and they "maybe had a point", but you're not saying what, and at the end of the day, you'll still lump it all together, with your vantage point from the right side of history. This isn't even nothing. This is just embarrasing.
I find this generally very fascinating, arguments that a kid could poke holes into. Like this recently:
> User-facing software is about politics the same way architecture (like for buildings) is political: sure there is a lot that software and buildings can do to make people do one thing instead of another, but they don't change the fundamental things that drive us.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17675577
Not even political parties "change the fundamental things that drive us", yet they're clearly super political. But it doesn't matter what any of it actually means, only the displayed orthodoxy of unthink and obedience does, that's sealed with approval no matter how inane. Actually, being more inane shows more loyalty, so in a sense that's encouraged. Which absolutely is a form of politics by the way, a rather sinister one as well, especially when it comes in the guise of being unbiased and unpolitical.
How would one call a person afraid of thought? You know, the branch technology is sitting on? "Noophobia" from passing glance seems like it could have been claimed by esoteric peeps, but other than that, it's a good word. If the glove fits, you must not allow a goosestep gap.