[caidan]

It’s going to turn out that LLM “AI” is one of the inventions like nuclear weapons that can severely regress an advanced civilization. Sometimes it even feels like it is likely to corrupt sentience itself, degrading it into mere cargo cult imitation. After all, if the only one in the room “thinking” is a statistical model of the thought that came before it, how could this be anything other than a dead end.

We have a loose collection of 8.3 billion biological intelligences on this planet that is by definition capable of creating our entire civilization (including llms). It is relatively inexpensive to grow and train, and is the most adaptive, creative, and “agentic” (idiotic word) force in the known universe.

Seems foolish to abdicate our title as reigning champions of the universe in favor of autocomplete. But again, maybe that’s just what civilizations tend to do when they get to this point….

[JTbane]

For what they are worth, nuclear weapons are still preventing large-scale conflict between world powers.

[kjkjadksj]

Hard to say if that is from the nukes or the global elite now being so very globally leveraged. Little column a and b probably.

[HDBaseT]

We have more wars on-going right now than any other point in history, excluding World Wars.

I don't think we are doing very well in preventing "large scale" conflict between World Powers.

Russia v. Ukraine war has half a million deaths on the Russian side alone. Is this large scale?

[dapperdrake]

Cargo-culting has "a rich history."

Others call it a proud tradition (as opposed to a useful tradition).