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by hcurtiss 23 days ago
Is that your experience with AI? It’s made my work vastly more efficient and valuable. And have you been to modern Chinese cities? Prosperity is awesome. Stop listening to the Luddites and eco-nihilists. There’s a way to have all that AND civil rights. But if we continue to outlaw development and energy intensive industries, then yes, the West will be Chinese slaves.
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customguy 23 days ago
> Stop listening to the Luddites and eco-nihilists.

Stop telling me to stop beating my wife, I'm not even married. You don't know what Luddites are, and I don't know what eco-nihilists are.

> we continue to outlaw development

Again, I have no idea what this is even referring to. I'm sure you mean something with that, but expressed in such a hyperbolic, all-or-nothing way I just don't know what to do with it, sorry.

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hcurtiss 23 days ago
You are doing the left-wing, pretending not to understand meme. Those are the principal objections in the linked article. Data centers are not an environmental catastrophe. And AI isn’t coming to take all of our jobs. There will be change, for certain, but if we don’t embrace it, the West is doomed. That is not hyperbole. History bears this out repeatedly.
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archagon 23 days ago
“And have you been to modern Chinese cities? Prosperity is awesome.”

Sounds like you should embrace a Chinese future just like you’ve embraced AI.

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customguy 23 days ago
If anyone who talks back or even just asks for clarification is "the left wing" for you, that kinda says it all.

The issues with "AI" is basically that profits once again get centralize while costs are outsourced. "The West" basically means buy our slop, die in our wars, die in the cold when you're elderly, but rest assured you're part of "The West" and "The West" is totally showing "the Chinese" what's what. While they tell their people the same thing. It's the same everywhere, all the time. And the argument is never a track record of success, but forms of "We cannot afford evidence in form of a mushroom cloud". Well, I think you're wrong and falling for liars, I say bring it.

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