Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by dyauspitr 29 days ago
Bunch of idiots. We’re all going to lose our jobs but you can only hold back the inevitable for so long. This idiot populous has a total inability to see past the extremely short term. What exactly is going to happen you’re going to block the data centers. You’re going to make it hard to make technical progress and then someone else will eat your lunch and now you’re just poor.
2 comments
add-sub-mul-div 29 days ago
Seeing the future is hard for everyone, but what I have a hard time understanding is people who act ignorant of the recent past. Because that's what tells us how AI is going to be used against us.
link
nozzlegear 29 days ago
Personally I'm not convinced by pro-accelerationism arguments. Why shouldn't technical progress be hard? Why shouldn't the inevitable be held back as long as possible? What does it mean to have someone else eat our lunch in terms of AI?
link
dyauspitr 29 days ago
It’s because you live in a world with competitors now this isn’t the 60s and the 70s anymore. There are legitimately quite a few countries that can effectively compete. Someone else eating your lunch in this case means you’re poor, have no global power and life for all of us will be worse than what we currently enjoy.
link
nozzlegear 29 days ago
But in terms of AI, what does that actually mean? If the Chinese are ahead of us and have "eaten our lunch," what are the actual effects? Cheaper AI for everyone with the existential threat that they may shut off access whenever they like? We're not building weapons here, there's no end goal unless you believe in the myth of AGI that these companies are pushing. US companies won't suddenly take their LLMs offline if China's become sufficiently advanced.
link
dyauspitr 28 days ago
I mean, that is the shortest term possible thinking. These mortals are only going to keep getting better if we had some sort of inflection point where massive scientific discoveries become easy America loses its advantage and simple terms that just means you’ll be poor. Have less money healthcare will suck. Jobs will be hard to find and you’ll eventually have to do whatever your Chinese overlords tell you.
link
customguy 29 days ago
What's the competition about? If you can generate more value from less, why should that make anyone else poorer?
link