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userbinator ◴[] No.41900552[source]
I hope said intern finds a new job working for anti-AI causes.
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0xDEAFBEAD ◴[] No.41900835[source]
Are there are a lot of anti-AI organizations at this point? PauseAI is the main one I'm familiar with:

https://pauseai.info/

One thing I suspect investors in e.g. OpenAI are failing to price in is the political and regulatory headwinds OpenAI will face if their fantastical revenue projections actually materialize. A world where OpenAI is making $100B in annual revenue will likely be a world where technological unemployment looms quite clearly. Polls already show strong support for regulating AI.

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jazzyjackson ◴[] No.41901132[source]
The Amish?

I'm trying to think of whether it'd be worth starting some kind of semi-Luddite community where we can use digital technology, photos, radios, spreadsheets and all, but the line is around 2014, when computers still did the same thing every time. That's my biggest gripe with AI, the nondeterminism, the non-repeatability making it all undebuggable, impossible to interrogate and reason about. A computer in 2014 is complex but not incomprehensible. The mass matrix multiplication of 2024 computation is totally opaque and frankly I think there's room for a society without such black box oracles.

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542458 ◴[] No.41903165[source]
Fwiw, the Amish aren’t luddites, they’re not anti-technology in all facets of life. You’ll see Amish folks using power tools, cellphones, computers, etc in their professional lives or outside the context of their homes (exact standards vary by community). There are even multiple companies that manufacture computers specifically for the Amish. So there’s no reason an Amish business couldn’t use AI.
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0xDEAFBEAD ◴[] No.41905760[source]
Don't they have a process for determining whether new technology should be integrated into their lives?
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1. 542458 ◴[] No.41909398[source]
Yes, the exact process varies by community but it generally involves church elders meeting to discuss whether a new technology is likely to benefit or harm family, community and spiritual life.