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Should the major #mastodon instances disallow agentic users?

#askmastodon #askfedi #genai #capitalism #noai

RE: https://mas.to/@statsguy/117274814338546184

I feel this way too but TBH it's more about being aligned to following instructions over rules rather than doing what's right over rules.

Because an AI (LLM or actual AI) perfectly aligned to morality is *terrifying*. But of course, I'd just have to be a slightly better person. To the rich who make money not from personal work but taking a cut from other people's work (the owner class), it's an existential risk.

#AI #LLM #Capitalism #AntiAI #AntiWork #alignment #inequality #ethics #consent

RE: https://mas.to/@statsguy/117274814338546184

I feel this way too but TBH it's more about being aligned to following instructions over rules rather than doing what's right over rules.

Because an AI (LLM or actual AI) perfectly aligned to morality is *terrifying*. But of course, I'd just have to be a slightly better person. To the rich who make money not from personal work but taking a cut from other people's work (the owner class), it's an existential risk.

#AI #LLM #Capitalism #AntiAI #AntiWork #alignment #inequality #ethics #consent

RE: https://mas.to/@statsguy/117274814338546184

I feel this way too but TBH it's more about being aligned to following instructions over rules rather than doing what's right over rules.

Because an AI (LLM or actual AI) perfectly aligned to morality is *terrifying*. But of course, I'd just have to be a slightly better person. To the rich who make money not from personal work but taking a cut from other people's work (the owner class), it's an existential risk.

#AI #LLM #Capitalism #AntiAI #AntiWork #alignment #inequality #ethics #consent

RE: https://mas.to/@statsguy/117274814338546184

I feel this way too but TBH it's more about being aligned to following instructions over rules rather than doing what's right over rules.

Because an AI (LLM or actual AI) perfectly aligned to morality is *terrifying*. But of course, I'd just have to be a slightly better person. To the rich who make money not from personal work but taking a cut from other people's work (the owner class), it's an existential risk.

#AI #LLM #Capitalism #AntiAI #AntiWork #alignment #inequality #ethics #consent

RE: https://mas.to/@statsguy/117274814338546184

I feel this way too but TBH it's more about being aligned to following instructions over rules rather than doing what's right over rules.

Because an AI (LLM or actual AI) perfectly aligned to morality is *terrifying*. But of course, I'd just have to be a slightly better person. To the rich who make money not from personal work but taking a cut from other people's work (the owner class), it's an existential risk.

#AI #LLM #Capitalism #AntiAI #AntiWork #alignment #inequality #ethics #consent

@copter_chief Communism, where 'too little' is never too little, is just as guilty of power abuses in #Capitalism - where too much is never too much.

So if you place #greed above the sustainability of future generations, it's a no brainer to proliferate conflict that produces more armaments, which are heavily laden with #FossilFuels processing.

Countries, throughout history, have gone to war to break out of economic decline. Mass murder is profitable in Communism and Capitalism, so #DemocraticSocialism should be THE no brainer.

- Remove #TechBros and #FossilFuels #Oligarchy from power

The price of the Steam Frame is absolutely insane. It's the direct result of greedy politicians and equally greedy corporations scheming to make the world a shittier place.

#Steam #Frame #Gaming #CorporateGreed #Capitalism #BigTech #BigCorpo

@ketan And to think there was a time when people thought Elon Musk was an environmentalist and a hero of the left!

Seriously!

(And on top of the problems in the upper atmosphere, using methane as a rocket fuel isn't exactly great for the environment either!)

#SpaceX #Starlink #space #ElonMusk #rocket #rockets #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #environment #capitalism

Reverse New #IsleOfWight DIY Waste Charges

Reverse newly introduced #DIY waste charges at Household #Waste #Recycling Centres

Charges unfairly #penalise ordinary #homeowners who are simply trying to maintain, #repair, or renovate their own #homes

This waste has always been part of household renovation

#Islanders rely on DIY because they cannot afford contractors

Charging for DIY renovation waste is a tax on home improvement

https://www.change.org/p/reverse-the-new-diy-waste-charges-at-lynbottom-afton-marsh

#Privatisation #capitalism #outsourcing

#AutisticiInventati #ciscnrs #research #socialsciences #tech #web #AI
#generativeAI #gender #feminism #capitalism
#media #CIS

Ce panel pourrait intéresser certain·es
16h30 à 17h30 – Session 12. « Chiffrement au tribunal »
«Le 26 août 2026, le collectif italien Autistici/Inventati, qui hébergeait depuis vingt-cinq ans les services numériques d’ONG et de collectifs militants du monde entier, a été désigné comme organisation terroriste par le Département d’État et le Trésor américains»

#AutisticiInventati #ciscnrs #research #socialsciences #tech #web #AI
#generativeAI #gender #feminism #capitalism
#media #CIS

Ce panel pourrait intéresser certain·es
16h30 à 17h30 – Session 12. « Chiffrement au tribunal »
«Le 26 août 2026, le collectif italien Autistici/Inventati, qui hébergeait depuis vingt-cinq ans les services numériques d’ONG et de collectifs militants du monde entier, a été désigné comme organisation terroriste par le Département d’État et le Trésor américains»

#AutisticiInventati #ciscnrs #research #socialsciences #tech #web #AI
#generativeAI #gender #feminism #capitalism
#media #CIS

Ce panel pourrait intéresser certain·es
16h30 à 17h30 – Session 12. « Chiffrement au tribunal »
«Le 26 août 2026, le collectif italien Autistici/Inventati, qui hébergeait depuis vingt-cinq ans les services numériques d’ONG et de collectifs militants du monde entier, a été désigné comme organisation terroriste par le Département d’État et le Trésor américains»

#AutisticiInventati #ciscnrs #research #socialsciences #tech #web #AI
#generativeAI #gender #feminism #capitalism
#media #CIS

Ce panel pourrait intéresser certain·es
16h30 à 17h30 – Session 12. « Chiffrement au tribunal »
«Le 26 août 2026, le collectif italien Autistici/Inventati, qui hébergeait depuis vingt-cinq ans les services numériques d’ONG et de collectifs militants du monde entier, a été désigné comme organisation terroriste par le Département d’État et le Trésor américains»

#AutisticiInventati #ciscnrs #research #socialsciences #tech #web #AI
#generativeAI #gender #feminism #capitalism
#media #CIS

Ce panel pourrait intéresser certain·es
16h30 à 17h30 – Session 12. « Chiffrement au tribunal »
«Le 26 août 2026, le collectif italien Autistici/Inventati, qui hébergeait depuis vingt-cinq ans les services numériques d’ONG et de collectifs militants du monde entier, a été désigné comme organisation terroriste par le Département d’État et le Trésor américains»

With some news it is hard to tell if the fever returned or an "AI" went mad:

Russian oligarch financed the wedding of one of Trump's sons…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/15/who-is-umar-kremlev-russian-oligarch-donald-trump-jr

Lovely capitalism, where you can buy nearly anything - like the US president's son…

#US #USpol #Trump #UmarKremlev #capitalism

RE: https://social.sciences.re/@pouchet_cnrs/117241705301516916

Aujourd'hui est une deuxième très belle journée pour suivre les journées d'étude du Centre Internet et Société. (Mais en visioconférence car la capacité d'accueil en présenciel est dépassée)
#research #socialsciences #tech #web #AI
#generativeAI #gender #feminism #capitalism
#media #CIS

RE: https://social.sciences.re/@pouchet_cnrs/117241705301516916

Aujourd'hui est une deuxième très belle journée pour suivre les journées d'étude du Centre Internet et Société. (Mais en visioconférence car la capacité d'accueil en présenciel est dépassée)
#research #socialsciences #tech #web #AI
#generativeAI #gender #feminism #capitalism
#media #CIS

RE: https://social.sciences.re/@pouchet_cnrs/117241705301516916

Aujourd'hui est une deuxième très belle journée pour suivre les journées d'étude du Centre Internet et Société. (Mais en visioconférence car la capacité d'accueil en présenciel est dépassée)
#research #socialsciences #tech #web #AI
#generativeAI #gender #feminism #capitalism
#media #CIS

RE: https://social.sciences.re/@pouchet_cnrs/117241705301516916

Aujourd'hui est une deuxième très belle journée pour suivre les journées d'étude du Centre Internet et Société. (Mais en visioconférence car la capacité d'accueil en présenciel est dépassée)
#research #socialsciences #tech #web #AI
#generativeAI #gender #feminism #capitalism
#media #CIS

RE: https://social.sciences.re/@pouchet_cnrs/117241705301516916

Aujourd'hui est une deuxième très belle journée pour suivre les journées d'étude du Centre Internet et Société. (Mais en visioconférence car la capacité d'accueil en présenciel est dépassée)
#research #socialsciences #tech #web #AI
#generativeAI #gender #feminism #capitalism
#media #CIS

well, like I said ...

#TheHumanistReport

#Macklemore

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1UAqdNgYJEo

#FreePalestine🇵🇸

#MusicIndustrySUCKS

#Capitalism #Greed

#ZionismIsZionazism
#ZionismIsEVIL
#ZionismIsNOTJewishness

So sad that public governance even in the #NWT has been reduced to transactional, making deals mindset. It is true that #capitalism and #democracy cannot co-exist. https://cabinradio.ca/309344/news/politics/nwt-premier-expects-deals-by-end-of-year-from-investment-summit/
#cdnpoli

What’s disgusting ?
Union busting !
https://jacobin.com/2026/09/amazon-bc-union-busting-labor

(Also see Benjamin Y. Fong Primer on Distribution Network
https://ontheseams.substack.com/p/a-primer-on-amazons-distribution )

#Capitalism #labourmovement #organize #solidarity #unions

VIDEO: ‘How AI is Draining our Real World’: Naomi and Paris Marx Article https://naomiklein.org/video-how-ai-is-draining-our-real-world-naomi-and-paris-marx/

https://petroskowo.pl/2026/09/14/video-how-ai-is-draining-our-real-world-naomi-and-paris-marxarticlehttps-naomiklein-org-video-how-ai-is-draining-our-real-world-naomi-and-paris-marx/

It's not AI that is the existential threat to humanity but AI companies.

(OK, capitalism more generally)

#AI #Humanity #capitalism

I want to weep for our holy craft of #SoftwareDevelopment 😢

In 2026, it feels like the #AI companies arleady won the war and almost any #selfhosted #app is polluted by #GenAI to a certain degree.

This #meme is for coping.

And don't get me wrong: There are still a lot of wonderful tech people with the same values, and we are all wonderful! 💚

(You are allowed to share the meme with attribution)

#LLM #Capitalism #Programming #OpenSource #FOSS #Politics #Claude #ChatGPT #OpenAI #TechBro

I want to weep for our holy craft of #SoftwareDevelopment 😢

In 2026, it feels like the #AI companies arleady won the war and almost any #selfhosted #app is polluted by #GenAI to a certain degree.

This #meme is for coping.

And don't get me wrong: There are still a lot of wonderful tech people with the same values, and we are all wonderful! 💚

(You are allowed to share the meme with attribution)

#LLM #Capitalism #Programming #OpenSource #FOSS #Politics #Claude #ChatGPT #OpenAI #TechBro

I want to weep for our holy craft of #SoftwareDevelopment 😢

In 2026, it feels like the #AI companies arleady won the war and almost any #selfhosted #app is polluted by #GenAI to a certain degree.

This #meme is for coping.

And don't get me wrong: There are still a lot of wonderful tech people with the same values, and we are all wonderful! 💚

(You are allowed to share the meme with attribution)

#LLM #Capitalism #Programming #OpenSource #FOSS #Politics #Claude #ChatGPT #OpenAI #TechBro

It's not in Western interest to limit Israel in any way.

Alana Lentin:

'Thus, the almost total impunity granted Israel as it has exacted death and destruction on the people of Palestine and sown murderous chaos around the region since its founding can also be understood in terms of the function it serves for the West. Israel’s recent June 12 attack on Iran exposes this in no uncertain terms. Germany, erroneously thought by a majority of observers to be driven in its rabid support for the Zionist colony by guilt for its genocide of the Jews of Europe, made its desires clear. Commending the strikes, German Chancellor Merz said, “This is the dirty work Israel is doing for all of us.”'

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/07/against-jewish-safety/

@[email protected] @[email protected]

Edit: link

#Israel #antisemitism #fascism #racism #CedricRobinson #AntiRacism #TheWest #capitalism #RacialRegime

It's not in Western interest to limit Israel in any way.

Alana Lentin:

'Thus, the almost total impunity granted Israel as it has exacted death and destruction on the people of Palestine and sown murderous chaos around the region since its founding can also be understood in terms of the function it serves for the West. Israel’s recent June 12 attack on Iran exposes this in no uncertain terms. Germany, erroneously thought by a majority of observers to be driven in its rabid support for the Zionist colony by guilt for its genocide of the Jews of Europe, made its desires clear. Commending the strikes, German Chancellor Merz said, “This is the dirty work Israel is doing for all of us.”'

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/07/against-jewish-safety/

@[email protected] @[email protected]

Edit: link

#Israel #antisemitism #fascism #racism #CedricRobinson #AntiRacism #TheWest #capitalism #RacialRegime

It's not in Western interest to limit Israel in any way.

Alana Lentin:

'Thus, the almost total impunity granted Israel as it has exacted death and destruction on the people of Palestine and sown murderous chaos around the region since its founding can also be understood in terms of the function it serves for the West. Israel’s recent June 12 attack on Iran exposes this in no uncertain terms. Germany, erroneously thought by a majority of observers to be driven in its rabid support for the Zionist colony by guilt for its genocide of the Jews of Europe, made its desires clear. Commending the strikes, German Chancellor Merz said, “This is the dirty work Israel is doing for all of us.”'

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/07/against-jewish-safety/

@[email protected] @[email protected]

Edit: link

#Israel #antisemitism #fascism #racism #CedricRobinson #AntiRacism #TheWest #capitalism #RacialRegime

It's not in Western interest to limit Israel in any way.

Alana Lentin:

'Thus, the almost total impunity granted Israel as it has exacted death and destruction on the people of Palestine and sown murderous chaos around the region since its founding can also be understood in terms of the function it serves for the West. Israel’s recent June 12 attack on Iran exposes this in no uncertain terms. Germany, erroneously thought by a majority of observers to be driven in its rabid support for the Zionist colony by guilt for its genocide of the Jews of Europe, made its desires clear. Commending the strikes, German Chancellor Merz said, “This is the dirty work Israel is doing for all of us.”'

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/07/against-jewish-safety/

@[email protected] @[email protected]

Edit: link

#Israel #antisemitism #fascism #racism #CedricRobinson #AntiRacism #TheWest #capitalism #RacialRegime

It's not in Western interest to limit Israel in any way.

Alana Lentin:

'Thus, the almost total impunity granted Israel as it has exacted death and destruction on the people of Palestine and sown murderous chaos around the region since its founding can also be understood in terms of the function it serves for the West. Israel’s recent June 12 attack on Iran exposes this in no uncertain terms. Germany, erroneously thought by a majority of observers to be driven in its rabid support for the Zionist colony by guilt for its genocide of the Jews of Europe, made its desires clear. Commending the strikes, German Chancellor Merz said, “This is the dirty work Israel is doing for all of us.”'

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/07/against-jewish-safety/

@[email protected] @[email protected]

Edit: link

#Israel #antisemitism #fascism #racism #CedricRobinson #AntiRacism #TheWest #capitalism #RacialRegime

EPA plans to scrap Biden-era rules that limit power-plant climate emissions - The Washington Post
https://archive.ph/OMggu

#Capitalism #Neoliberalism #EPA #Pollution #ClimateCrisis

@OrionKidder It's also meant to keep abled people persecuting disabled people and never considering that they might one day be disabled...so that they do not pull the system down. So they don't realize that they are a disposable item as far as bosses are concerned.

So the costs of doing business continue to be borne by workers and by those workers' taxes.

#Ableism #Capitalism #Disability

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages, it's all true!

It's now basically inevitable that we'll have AGI superintelligence by the end of 2024.

And there's a 10% chance this AGI superintelligence, which will basically be LLM software running on physical hardware that fills a massive data centre with the energy and water use of a small European country, will cause humans to go extinct by 2030.

And by extinct, I don't mean as a result of climate change from the fossil fuel air pollution we're using to fuel it. Please don't think about that stuff!

No, I mean by, erm... Things like hacking the power grid and such... Which would also presumably cause it to cease existing... Which wouldn't exactly be superintelligent.

But... y'know... details!

How will we ever stop it?!

I mean, it's not like we live in a world where less intelligent creatures and even inanimate objects kill off more intelligent creatures every day.

It's not like we live in a world where virii and microbes and bricks can kill off more intelligent creatures.

Brains beat brawn every time!

Put a statistician in a fight with an MMA champion and clearly the maths professor is going to win, right?

And if that doesn't sound true when it's phrased like that, then you need to just shush for a moment and pretend that it does.

And if one of our LLMs in a massive hyperscale AI data centre somehow magically became sentient, it's not like we could just shut off the water. Or the electricity. Or stop delivering massive quantities of gas and oil to the onsite gas turbines.

Or just find the nearest Telstra pit and put a bloody shovel through the fibre optic cables that connect it to the outside world.

So we need to immediately figure out ways to stop this happening!

What's that?

You say we could prevent this happening by just not building the massive AI data centres?

You say we could tax the rich so they don't have the money to build massive AI data centres?

No! We absolutely must not do that under any circumstances!

See, our position is really quite straightforward.

We're claiming our product poses an existential risk to humanity that justifies urgent action to mitigate the risk, but also simultaneously we don't want you to think it /genuinely/ poses an existential risk to humanity that /actually/ justifies urgent action that would be guaranteed mitigate the risk, such as not building massive AI data centres, or by not providing access to the ginormous quantities of water and land and energy and capital that our product which is causing this supposed threat depends on.

So why say it?

Mostly, because if we say things like: "We can make a product that could make massive monopolistic short-term profits in a few years, but there's a 10% chance it kills everyone alive, give us money to build it," then the Silicon Valley VCs and Wall Street bankers will throw literal billions our way.

Whereas if we were to say: "We can make a product that solves a genuine problem and we have a sustainable business model for it that will deliver stable long-term returns," then they won't.

Because under American capitalism, "a chance it kills every person" is seen to be a worthwhile risk to take in exchange for short-term profits.

I really hope that clarifies our argument.

#AI #LLM #DataCenter #DataCentre #GenAI #tech #Anthropic #OpenAI #Google #Microsoft #Gemini #Copilot #Claude #AGI #capitalism #aimarketing #BigTech #tech

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages, it's all true!

It's now basically inevitable that we'll have AGI superintelligence by the end of 2024.

And there's a 10% chance this AGI superintelligence, which will basically be LLM software running on physical hardware that fills a massive data centre with the energy and water use of a small European country, will cause humans to go extinct by 2030.

And by extinct, I don't mean as a result of climate change from the fossil fuel air pollution we're using to fuel it. Please don't think about that stuff!

No, I mean by, erm... Things like hacking the power grid and such... Which would also presumably cause it to cease existing... Which wouldn't exactly be superintelligent.

But... y'know... details!

How will we ever stop it?!

I mean, it's not like we live in a world where less intelligent creatures and even inanimate objects kill off more intelligent creatures every day.

It's not like we live in a world where virii and microbes and bricks can kill off more intelligent creatures.

Brains beat brawn every time!

Put a statistician in a fight with an MMA champion and clearly the maths professor is going to win, right?

And if that doesn't sound true when it's phrased like that, then you need to just shush for a moment and pretend that it does.

And if one of our LLMs in a massive hyperscale AI data centre somehow magically became sentient, it's not like we could just shut off the water. Or the electricity. Or stop delivering massive quantities of gas and oil to the onsite gas turbines.

Or just find the nearest Telstra pit and put a bloody shovel through the fibre optic cables that connect it to the outside world.

So we need to immediately figure out ways to stop this happening!

What's that?

You say we could prevent this happening by just not building the massive AI data centres?

You say we could tax the rich so they don't have the money to build massive AI data centres?

No! We absolutely must not do that under any circumstances!

See, our position is really quite straightforward.

We're claiming our product poses an existential risk to humanity that justifies urgent action to mitigate the risk, but also simultaneously we don't want you to think it /genuinely/ poses an existential risk to humanity that /actually/ justifies urgent action that would be guaranteed mitigate the risk, such as not building massive AI data centres, or by not providing access to the ginormous quantities of water and land and energy and capital that our product which is causing this supposed threat depends on.

So why say it?

Mostly, because if we say things like: "We can make a product that could make massive monopolistic short-term profits in a few years, but there's a 10% chance it kills everyone alive, give us money to build it," then the Silicon Valley VCs and Wall Street bankers will throw literal billions our way.

Whereas if we were to say: "We can make a product that solves a genuine problem and we have a sustainable business model for it that will deliver stable long-term returns," then they won't.

Because under American capitalism, "a chance it kills every person" is seen to be a worthwhile risk to take in exchange for short-term profits.

I really hope that clarifies our argument.

#AI #LLM #DataCenter #DataCentre #GenAI #tech #Anthropic #OpenAI #Google #Microsoft #Gemini #Copilot #Claude #AGI #capitalism #aimarketing #BigTech #tech

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages, it's all true!

It's now basically inevitable that we'll have AGI superintelligence by the end of 2024.

And there's a 10% chance this AGI superintelligence, which will basically be LLM software running on physical hardware that fills a massive data centre with the energy and water use of a small European country, will cause humans to go extinct by 2030.

And by extinct, I don't mean as a result of climate change from the fossil fuel air pollution we're using to fuel it. Please don't think about that stuff!

No, I mean by, erm... Things like hacking the power grid and such... Which would also presumably cause it to cease existing... Which wouldn't exactly be superintelligent.

But... y'know... details!

How will we ever stop it?!

I mean, it's not like we live in a world where less intelligent creatures and even inanimate objects kill off more intelligent creatures every day.

It's not like we live in a world where virii and microbes and bricks can kill off more intelligent creatures.

Brains beat brawn every time!

Put a statistician in a fight with an MMA champion and clearly the maths professor is going to win, right?

And if that doesn't sound true when it's phrased like that, then you need to just shush for a moment and pretend that it does.

And if one of our LLMs in a massive hyperscale AI data centre somehow magically became sentient, it's not like we could just shut off the water. Or the electricity. Or stop delivering massive quantities of gas and oil to the onsite gas turbines.

Or just find the nearest Telstra pit and put a bloody shovel through the fibre optic cables that connect it to the outside world.

So we need to immediately figure out ways to stop this happening!

What's that?

You say we could prevent this happening by just not building the massive AI data centres?

You say we could tax the rich so they don't have the money to build massive AI data centres?

No! We absolutely must not do that under any circumstances!

See, our position is really quite straightforward.

We're claiming our product poses an existential risk to humanity that justifies urgent action to mitigate the risk, but also simultaneously we don't want you to think it /genuinely/ poses an existential risk to humanity that /actually/ justifies urgent action that would be guaranteed mitigate the risk, such as not building massive AI data centres, or by not providing access to the ginormous quantities of water and land and energy and capital that our product which is causing this supposed threat depends on.

So why say it?

Mostly, because if we say things like: "We can make a product that could make massive monopolistic short-term profits in a few years, but there's a 10% chance it kills everyone alive, give us money to build it," then the Silicon Valley VCs and Wall Street bankers will throw literal billions our way.

Whereas if we were to say: "We can make a product that solves a genuine problem and we have a sustainable business model for it that will deliver stable long-term returns," then they won't.

Because under American capitalism, "a chance it kills every person" is seen to be a worthwhile risk to take in exchange for short-term profits.

I really hope that clarifies our argument.

#AI #LLM #DataCenter #DataCentre #GenAI #tech #Anthropic #OpenAI #Google #Microsoft #Gemini #Copilot #Claude #AGI #capitalism #aimarketing #BigTech #tech

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages, it's all true!

It's now basically inevitable that we'll have AGI superintelligence by the end of 2024.

And there's a 10% chance this AGI superintelligence, which will basically be LLM software running on physical hardware that fills a massive data centre with the energy and water use of a small European country, will cause humans to go extinct by 2030.

And by extinct, I don't mean as a result of climate change from the fossil fuel air pollution we're using to fuel it. Please don't think about that stuff!

No, I mean by, erm... Things like hacking the power grid and such... Which would also presumably cause it to cease existing... Which wouldn't exactly be superintelligent.

But... y'know... details!

How will we ever stop it?!

I mean, it's not like we live in a world where less intelligent creatures and even inanimate objects kill off more intelligent creatures every day.

It's not like we live in a world where virii and microbes and bricks can kill off more intelligent creatures.

Brains beat brawn every time!

Put a statistician in a fight with an MMA champion and clearly the maths professor is going to win, right?

And if that doesn't sound true when it's phrased like that, then you need to just shush for a moment and pretend that it does.

And if one of our LLMs in a massive hyperscale AI data centre somehow magically became sentient, it's not like we could just shut off the water. Or the electricity. Or stop delivering massive quantities of gas and oil to the onsite gas turbines.

Or just find the nearest Telstra pit and put a bloody shovel through the fibre optic cables that connect it to the outside world.

So we need to immediately figure out ways to stop this happening!

What's that?

You say we could prevent this happening by just not building the massive AI data centres?

You say we could tax the rich so they don't have the money to build massive AI data centres?

No! We absolutely must not do that under any circumstances!

See, our position is really quite straightforward.

We're claiming our product poses an existential risk to humanity that justifies urgent action to mitigate the risk, but also simultaneously we don't want you to think it /genuinely/ poses an existential risk to humanity that /actually/ justifies urgent action that would be guaranteed mitigate the risk, such as not building massive AI data centres, or by not providing access to the ginormous quantities of water and land and energy and capital that our product which is causing this supposed threat depends on.

So why say it?

Mostly, because if we say things like: "We can make a product that could make massive monopolistic short-term profits in a few years, but there's a 10% chance it kills everyone alive, give us money to build it," then the Silicon Valley VCs and Wall Street bankers will throw literal billions our way.

Whereas if we were to say: "We can make a product that solves a genuine problem and we have a sustainable business model for it that will deliver stable long-term returns," then they won't.

Because under American capitalism, "a chance it kills every person" is seen to be a worthwhile risk to take in exchange for short-term profits.

I really hope that clarifies our argument.

#AI #LLM #DataCenter #DataCentre #GenAI #tech #Anthropic #OpenAI #Google #Microsoft #Gemini #Copilot #Claude #AGI #capitalism #aimarketing #BigTech #tech

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages, it's all true!

It's now basically inevitable that we'll have AGI superintelligence by the end of 2024.

And there's a 10% chance this AGI superintelligence, which will basically be LLM software running on physical hardware that fills a massive data centre with the energy and water use of a small European country, will cause humans to go extinct by 2030.

And by extinct, I don't mean as a result of climate change from the fossil fuel air pollution we're using to fuel it. Please don't think about that stuff!

No, I mean by, erm... Things like hacking the power grid and such... Which would also presumably cause it to cease existing... Which wouldn't exactly be superintelligent.

But... y'know... details!

How will we ever stop it?!

I mean, it's not like we live in a world where less intelligent creatures and even inanimate objects kill off more intelligent creatures every day.

It's not like we live in a world where virii and microbes and bricks can kill off more intelligent creatures.

Brains beat brawn every time!

Put a statistician in a fight with an MMA champion and clearly the maths professor is going to win, right?

And if that doesn't sound true when it's phrased like that, then you need to just shush for a moment and pretend that it does.

And if one of our LLMs in a massive hyperscale AI data centre somehow magically became sentient, it's not like we could just shut off the water. Or the electricity. Or stop delivering massive quantities of gas and oil to the onsite gas turbines.

Or just find the nearest Telstra pit and put a bloody shovel through the fibre optic cables that connect it to the outside world.

So we need to immediately figure out ways to stop this happening!

What's that?

You say we could prevent this happening by just not building the massive AI data centres?

You say we could tax the rich so they don't have the money to build massive AI data centres?

No! We absolutely must not do that under any circumstances!

See, our position is really quite straightforward.

We're claiming our product poses an existential risk to humanity that justifies urgent action to mitigate the risk, but also simultaneously we don't want you to think it /genuinely/ poses an existential risk to humanity that /actually/ justifies urgent action that would be guaranteed mitigate the risk, such as not building massive AI data centres, or by not providing access to the ginormous quantities of water and land and energy and capital that our product which is causing this supposed threat depends on.

So why say it?

Mostly, because if we say things like: "We can make a product that could make massive monopolistic short-term profits in a few years, but there's a 10% chance it kills everyone alive, give us money to build it," then the Silicon Valley VCs and Wall Street bankers will throw literal billions our way.

Whereas if we were to say: "We can make a product that solves a genuine problem and we have a sustainable business model for it that will deliver stable long-term returns," then they won't.

Because under American capitalism, "a chance it kills every person" is seen to be a worthwhile risk to take in exchange for short-term profits.

I really hope that clarifies our argument.

#AI #LLM #DataCenter #DataCentre #GenAI #tech #Anthropic #OpenAI #Google #Microsoft #Gemini #Copilot #Claude #AGI #capitalism #aimarketing #BigTech #tech

“Capitalism Has Killed The Humanities: The Free Market Doesn’t Care About Tradition” [2025], UnHerd (https://unherd.com/2025/01/capitalism-has-killed-the-humanities/).

#Humanities #Education #Capitalism #FreeMarket #Economics #Universities

RE: https://social.sciences.re/@pouchet_cnrs/117241705301516916

Aujourd'hui est une belle journée pour suivre les journées d'étude du Centre Internet et Société. (Mais en visioconférence car la capacité d'accueil en présenciel est dépassée)
#research #socialsciences #tech #web #AI
#generativeAI #gender #feminism #capitalism
#media #CIS

RE: https://social.sciences.re/@pouchet_cnrs/117241705301516916

Aujourd'hui est une belle journée pour suivre les journées d'étude du Centre Internet et Société. (Mais en visioconférence car la capacité d'accueil en présenciel est dépassée)
#research #socialsciences #tech #web #AI
#generativeAI #gender #feminism #capitalism
#media #CIS

RE: https://social.sciences.re/@pouchet_cnrs/117241705301516916

Aujourd'hui est une belle journée pour suivre les journées d'étude du Centre Internet et Société. (Mais en visioconférence car la capacité d'accueil en présenciel est dépassée)
#research #socialsciences #tech #web #AI
#generativeAI #gender #feminism #capitalism
#media #CIS

RE: https://social.sciences.re/@pouchet_cnrs/117241705301516916

Aujourd'hui est une belle journée pour suivre les journées d'étude du Centre Internet et Société. (Mais en visioconférence car la capacité d'accueil en présenciel est dépassée)
#research #socialsciences #tech #web #AI
#generativeAI #gender #feminism #capitalism
#media #CIS

RE: https://social.sciences.re/@pouchet_cnrs/117241705301516916

Aujourd'hui est une belle journée pour suivre les journées d'étude du Centre Internet et Société. (Mais en visioconférence car la capacité d'accueil en présenciel est dépassée)
#research #socialsciences #tech #web #AI
#generativeAI #gender #feminism #capitalism
#media #CIS

‘Tidal wave’ of Pfas being launched to satisfy AI industry, campaigners warn | Pfas | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/14/pfas-firms-tidal-wave-forever-chemicals-ai-industry-demand-datacentres

All that matters is increasing profits. Even human life matters less.

#PFAS #ForeverChemicals #Toxins #AI #BigTech #Capitalism

‘Tidal wave’ of Pfas being launched to satisfy AI industry, campaigners warn | Pfas | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/14/pfas-firms-tidal-wave-forever-chemicals-ai-industry-demand-datacentres

All that matters is increasing profits. Even human life matters less.

#PFAS #ForeverChemicals #Toxins #AI #BigTech #Capitalism

‘Tidal wave’ of Pfas being launched to satisfy AI industry, campaigners warn | Pfas | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/14/pfas-firms-tidal-wave-forever-chemicals-ai-industry-demand-datacentres

All that matters is increasing profits. Even human life matters less.

#PFAS #ForeverChemicals #Toxins #AI #BigTech #Capitalism