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Posted by mefengl 6 hours ago

Do you want the US to "win" AI?(geohot.github.io)
45 points | 82 commentspage 3
AntiUSAbah 5 hours ago|
After showing us that these people are willing to vote for Trump twice?

Having people like Peter Thiel over there who thinks daemons exist?

With Elon Musk having all social security numbers and no one cares about that? Or his blant disruption of democracy?

In china people disappear, true, but at least with China you know what you get. With USA its schizophrenia every 4 years and it wouldnt matter to me if suddenly my air travels are no longer possible due to Trump or i have to pay a lot more due to market disruptions.

comrade1234 5 hours ago|
I assure you, daemons do exist. They've possessed my linux server.
Diti 5 hours ago||
They live in the Dust gathered in your server!
fcantournet 5 hours ago||
Don't mean to make Americans sad but "the US" doesn't win AI, a few oligarchs win AI (if US companies end up winning).

The question is not US v China, it's Peter Thiel and Elon Musk vs literally anything else (that would be clearly better).

WA 4 hours ago|
The question who will benefit from wealth generated by AI is never clearly answered. Or it's hand-waved away with some productivity gains mumbo jumbo (that never result in less work, just more, because everybody loads up on AI tools) or the good old trickle down lie.
keybored 4 hours ago||
> By all accounts, I should be a neofeudalist. I should love what’s happening. The AI I dreamed of my whole life is being built, engineer-type strongmen are sort of in charge, and people are saying out loud the things I have just thought. You might argue that I like it and I’m just not happy with my seat at the table. I ask myself a lot if this is true, like what if I was Elon. Would I be enjoying it then from that position?

> Of course it’s impossible to know for sure, but I think I really wouldn’t. Even the ideal version, industrial megaprojects at hyperhuman scale while constantly being out over your skis with leverage sounds hellish. It’s not a society I want to live in, regardless of my seat. I would much prefer someone like this design society, with careful nuanced takes about technology.

Who writes like this? Hehe, my self-analysis says that I should be neofeudalist but I against the apparent odds am not. Congrats?

> It is coming, and the anti AI people would do poorly to bury their heads in the sand. Doing that won’t stop AI from being built. The good world is where everyone has AI, and not as a revokable privilege through an API, but through hard possession. Pay attention to who is releasing AI to the world and who has released nothing, then think about who the good guys are.

Who wants to follow these off the cuff rants? Oh right, the very reasonable move-to-Mars idea. But anyway, with regards to AI I hope the good tech bros win.

The tech bros from the same milieu where you openly muse about whether you are a neofeudalist, Church of Singularity Adherent, Rationalist, or whatever other Silicon Valley mind-degeneracy?

No thanks I don’t want any tech bro overlords. Bad or supposed good.

And people wonder why there is a partial backlash to AI?

undeveloper 5 hours ago||
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AntiUSAbah 4 hours ago|
Urgh wtf :|

Unfortunate i can't find the source though:

"He had a video on Youtube where he proudly gloated about how he voted for Trump in not one but two elections, how happy he is that he can now openly talk about it, how its a fresh start for US, how catastrophic Harris would have been. Did he take down the video because of embarrassment or did he fear negative impact on his sales?"

So i asked him and he voted for Trump only in 2016 so at least this source is not true.

quater321 5 hours ago|
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