I fear they will not be kind to us For years intellectuals in the working class turned a blind eye to the struggles of manual laborers of the working class. Intellectuals promulgated norms that can be almost impossible to keep up with without a tertiary education, and punished people who violated them. Rather than reaching out in a spirit of grace, we burnt with the spirit of law. We neglected unionism. Economists scoffed as blue collar work was automated giving only hollow assurances that it wouldn’t create unemployment in the
For a long time I have wondered why people would want to even participate in AI. History shows us "owners" have no compunction to not replace as many workers as possible. They have shown no compunction to not actually mow down (literally) strikers or those who challenge their authority. Oh, well. AI is the better future for employers (or maybe not). But I do not understand that people somehow think it's "cool" and know it isn't when consumers flock to movies of the dystopian AI future. Of course it will not be a war of humanity against machines, but of humanity who (think) they have control of machines to wage war against humanity (they think) don't. But you know Native-Americans did get guns, didn't they. But they were also replaced weren't they?
Brief reflections on the launch of GPT-4 and the future of intellectuals
For a long time I have wondered why people would want to even participate in AI. History shows us "owners" have no compunction to not replace as many workers as possible. They have shown no compunction to not actually mow down (literally) strikers or those who challenge their authority. Oh, well. AI is the better future for employers (or maybe not). But I do not understand that people somehow think it's "cool" and know it isn't when consumers flock to movies of the dystopian AI future. Of course it will not be a war of humanity against machines, but of humanity who (think) they have control of machines to wage war against humanity (they think) don't. But you know Native-Americans did get guns, didn't they. But they were also replaced weren't they?