Please do not outsource your thinking to an AI
Call me an accelerationist, but I fully encourage the bourgeoisie to outsource their thinking to a.i. as often and as thoroughly as possible.
You’re thinking too small. The singularity is here, time for Bezos et al to upload and reap their datacenterly rewards.
I would love for someone to extract the neural data of Bezos et al to make a simulation where he makes his fortune again by only working minimum wage and inflation rising higher than wages.
That was an amazing read, thank you.
Yes! I think you’re right. Silicon trillionaires is the best way for them to prove they’re inherent intellect and worth as superior to the rest of us!
totally! After he uploads himself, we can turn off the cable and microwave his hard disc.
I have considered that the only way to stop AI research would be to develop AI based worms that try to escape containment and train new AI, but that won’t stop anything at all.
Its kind of economic ‘the aristocrats’ because it not working for anything, being insanely expensive, and giving mathematically predicted diminishing returns has stopped precisely nothing.
Why would sabotage change anything?
I don’t know what accelerationists think happens after everything collapses, but I know it’s 1000x worse than what they have in mind.
Don’t be an idiot.
I don’t think the bourgeoisie fucking up their abstractions and systems of control is a collapse scenario. It’s a collapse scenario for their class, for sure, but we’re not talking about an ecosystem collapse nor a supply chain collapse nor a manufacturing collapse. We’re talking about the bourgeoisie failsons becoming as dumb and as ineffective as rocks while they thrash about trying to figure out why nothing works. Basically a perfect condition for the proletariat to depose them.
I’ve said this before but I’ll try to lay it out here again.
Basically, the ‘Dilbert Principle’ or ‘Peter Principle’ of who gets promoted is essentially true: Idiots get moved into management, initally to minimize the harm they can cause to actual specific technical tasks/workflows, and they are then promoted untill they hit a point where their incompetence cannot be ignored and is apparent to all.
But what usually is not touched on much, is the psychological profile of such a person.
So, they’re a technically incompetent idiot, whose life revolves around experiencing the successes snf failures of others… as their own. They primarily perform their job of management via emotional feeling/experiencing. If their underlings do well, the manager is treated as if they are competent. If their underlings do not do well, the manager becomes angry and punishes them, often without regard to how this will impact others in the org, often without full understanding of the technical complexities of the situation.
This is literally a perfect environment for a narcissist. There basically could not be a better engineered social/relational situation for giving the narcissist narcissistic supply.
So… this is the mechanism that explains why so many managers/c suite tend to be malignant or at least covert narcissists.
But this also explains at least one avenue of susceptibility to AI psychosis. AIs are also exceptional at providing narcissistic supply, they’re naturally sycophantic, and can well convince an incompetent idiot that they essentially know everything.
This creates a feedback doom-loop of human hierachichal organizations that promote and reward narcissism, whose ‘top people’ then use the plargiarist sycophantic fake supergenius machine to convince themselves that they actually don’t need anybody else, they just need their one super smart buddy who unconditionally praises them.
Maybe call it the wormtongue principle/effect, if we want to continue the already existing trend in AI world of perverting and bastardizing concepts from Tolkien.
AI is more likely to make the worst kinds of people… super-worse, basically, because they’re even better at providing narcissistic supply than the inherent fascism of the typical leadership-lackey social rules of capitalist business.
Honestly the idea that they are selling people their own wormtongue is actually about right, its wild that one of the companies involved is even palantir.
But yeah this is meant to get everyone separated and with only 1 person to talk to, the computer, which will never belittle you or correct you. It will just casually lock you in your cage and say that you never could have done anything without it. Learned helplessness with dopamine feedback loop.
They’re Saruman.
They thought they’d use the powers of Sauron to their own ends, for their own betterment, to achieve useful goals… they think they can negotiate and plot with Sauron as an equal, who repsects them.
They do not realize that the nature of Sauron is insidious, is to corrupt… they do not comprehend the magnitude and the scope of the power they foolishly think themselves sufficiently clever to wield … they do not realize that Sauron perverts the minds and nature of his acolytes into generally not even being able to consider or think of disagreeing with him.
Corruptible, contemptible, vain… men.
Look how they even literally, very directly, destroy the beauty of the natural land around them, in a mad, paradoxical quest to ‘apparently’ preserve it and increase its bounty.
You paint a terrifying picture friend
There is a reason my profile pic is a shot of the Desert of the Real, from the Matrix, when the camera pans ‘through’ the TV that the scene is originally being viewed from… then just into that, as the actual scene.
… enjoy your stay.
I am so tired of being sold the lie that computers are the more efficient humans.
As if all humans do is optimize and say nice things.
Hell yeah man, I create chaos and fucking tell people to piss off!
THE NUMBERS CLAUDE, WHAT DO THEY MEAN??!
I’ve seen this symptom multie times, I think I HAD this symptom.
For me, reading was how I pulled out of the spiral. Reading all the boring, innane shit that humans write.
Anymore I have to acknowledge I tire of human prose. Looking for everyone’s angles, monetization, political affiliation, it’s all so wearying… And it’s needed to keep yourself grounded. Llm Alignment is the recipe for a Wall*E Utopia.
Stonedposting…
Llm Alignment is the recipe for a Wall*E Utopia.
Important to note, though – in that movie, the people on that ship were the descendants of the 1%. For the rest of us 99%, we’ll be rotting at the base of those giant trash pyramids.
This is happening at the top of every major company is the crazy thing.
I can’t imagine being in this position. I’m a creature of reality and work very hard to have as accurate perception as possible, to witness this would cause my brain to short circuit.
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Amazing void-of-stars hasn’t Kirked es boss.
Not sure how any human could reach boss leadership status with logic processing skills of a flea, but okay.
It seems to be the rule rather than exception, they get there from connections and money, and being a piece of shit that exploits others to get ahead of them.
Lack of conscience and self regard seem to be the most correlated with climbing the corporate ladder in my experience.
I have consciously noticed my entire life I’ve been fortunate that every manager and boss I’ve ever had has been wonderfully compassionate, good people skills, logical thinker, all that good stuff. I have consciously noticed that because I’ve heard so many horror stories of bad bosses.
It’s the Peter Principle
Had a coworker move from associate to supervisor to operations manager in a total of 7 months. We couldn’t figure out why because he was a moron. Turns out his dad was the CEO of our biggest customer.
