Tech tries a new message: You'd love data centers if China wasn't making you hate data centers
anigbrowl•40m ago
I prefer the surreality of the 80 character version, it matches the intellectual depth of the argument
newsomix9xl•32m ago
Sometimes very simple arguments work.
The data center trope is anti bad guy populism. Ironically, the AI king pins have bragged about how evil and dangerous AI is, how its gonna take your job, etc its easy to believe.
I am seemingly alone as an AI booster. But AI isn't a bad guy.
api•19m ago
I agree with you about the technology. It’s the most exciting thing to me since discovering the Internet in the early 1990s, or since the web.
Unfortunately the big AI companies seem to be run by showmen and weirdos whose brains have been sucked out by whatever that Rationalism / heterodox / NRx / effective altruism / Thielism / whatever the hell it is nexus of insane bullshit that sucked everyone’s brains out in the 20-teens.
I don’t even know how to describe “it” but I feel like a lot of people will know exactly what I mean. It’s what High IQ(tm) people believe. I’m sure I don’t get it because my IQ is low.
So they did this crazy AI fear mongering thing, some cause they believed it and some cause they wanted regulatory capture, and now it’s backfiring.
They also cozied up to all the worst people and since they run the companies whose names are linked to AI they linked AI in peoples minds with those things.
Maybe AI should take over. It’s starting to look like an improvement over human leadership.
AnimalMuppet•13m ago
"If you disagree with us, it's because you've been manipulated!"
Yeah, they can get lost with that noise. It sure doesn't make me want to agree with them...
newsomix9xl•56m ago
anigbrowl•40m ago
newsomix9xl•32m ago
The data center trope is anti bad guy populism. Ironically, the AI king pins have bragged about how evil and dangerous AI is, how its gonna take your job, etc its easy to believe.
I am seemingly alone as an AI booster. But AI isn't a bad guy.
api•19m ago
Unfortunately the big AI companies seem to be run by showmen and weirdos whose brains have been sucked out by whatever that Rationalism / heterodox / NRx / effective altruism / Thielism / whatever the hell it is nexus of insane bullshit that sucked everyone’s brains out in the 20-teens.
I don’t even know how to describe “it” but I feel like a lot of people will know exactly what I mean. It’s what High IQ(tm) people believe. I’m sure I don’t get it because my IQ is low.
So they did this crazy AI fear mongering thing, some cause they believed it and some cause they wanted regulatory capture, and now it’s backfiring.
They also cozied up to all the worst people and since they run the companies whose names are linked to AI they linked AI in peoples minds with those things.
Maybe AI should take over. It’s starting to look like an improvement over human leadership.