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Are they against change in general, or certain kinds of change? Remember when social media was seen as near universal good kind of progress? Not so much now.

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Social media has never been seen as a universal positive force? It's the same with AI. It has good and bad aspects as does any technology that has an impact on this scale, AI will arguably have a much bigger impact imo.

People are generally against change that forces them to change the way they used to do things. I'm sure most will have their reasons why they are against this particular change, but I don't think it will affect anything. The genie is out of the bottle, AI is here to stay. You either adapt or you will slowly wither away.

It reminds me of something I read on mastodon: "genie doesn't go back in the bottle say AI promoters while the industry spends a trillion dollars a year to try to keep the genie out of the bottle"

Do you think the genie will go back in the bottle and why?

It's certainly possible. All that is required is for AIs to become more expensive than humans. Developing projects on a $100 Claude Code subscription is a lot of fun. I bet people would simply go back to hiring human developers if that subscription cost $10,000 instead.

Except you can pay $2500 once for a Strix Halo and have your own Claude Code hosted at home for free with unlimited tokens on 400w.

Well, I hope you're right. I want to be optimistic about the self-hosted LLMs future. Hope they keep distilling the frontier models until open weight models can match Opus one day. A self-hosted Opus would be amazing.

Adapting implies you are still a part of the environment though. AI is on a trajectory to replace you and take you out of the environment.

AI is on a trajectory to replace people who do not effectively use AI with people that do

That is the bait and switch. The end goal is that you are out of the equation. Your perceived effectiveness at using AI as an exchange of labor diminishes over time to the point that you become irrelevant.

this is certainly a possibility but human beings and societies as a whole adapt

Who has that end goal?? Who is going to direct the AI if only the CEO is left in the organization? The CEO will never actually do it , and will always need someone who can and will do it. I just can’t see a grand plan to take humans out of the equation entirely.

that most definitely is a plan, make no mistake about it. but as mike tyson famously said, “every has a plan until they get punched in a mouth” :)

> Social media has never been seen as a universal positive force?

You missed the whole arab spring thing?

Is it meant as sarcasm?

If you selectively read one sentence of my comment, you risk missing the forest for the trees. I don't have any particular knowledge on the arab spring so I won't comment on that but I quite clearly said that technology has good and bad aspects to it.

This is like blaming a knife as being a killer weapon. Social media is inherently good if owners of the platforms allow for good interactions to take place. But given the mismatch between incentives alignment, we don't have nice things.

Social media is good if owners allow for good is an example of the logical fallacy "begging the question"

Also blaming the tool for the crime is some sort of fallacy. I don't know name you can ask AI.

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