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#doomerism — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #doomerism, aggregated by home.social.

  1. 🙀Why AI companies want you to be afraid of them

    「 what we're actually seeing is fear mongering, which exaggerates the potential of the technology and serves to boost stock prices. And it encourages a narrative that regulators must stand aside, because these AI companies are the only ones who can stop the bad guys and build this technology responsibly 」

    bbc.com/future/article/2026042

    #ai #doomerism #disinfo

  2. @wutti George #Orwell, hätte dabei eine feuchte Hose bekommen.

    Ich verstehe schon #LLM replizieren nur Muster der Datenquelle. (sehr simplifiziert)
    At best, werden halt die Verhaltens- und Sprachmuster der Nutzer geklont. Aber das Missbrauchspotential ist mit hinreichend krimineller Energie nahe unendlich.

    Ich will mir da gar nicht ausmalen, welche Einflüsse das auf parlamentarische System nehmen kann. Da bekommt "nie wieder wählen" einen sehr dystopischen Turn.

    Leider ist hier die Entwicklung der #Technologie sehr viel schneller als die Setzung ethischer und moralischer Standards und entsprechender Legislatur.

    #doomerism #ustech #simulationtheory

  3. Alibaba: the AI kingmaker A doctor anywhere likely loves using AI as a second opinion on her lawyers’ legal advice, to prepare for a meeting or to fact-check his claims. However, she perhaps stil...

    #Technology #AI #Doomerism #Artificial #Intelligence #Block #2 #Bytedance #China #AI #China

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  4. I may have already found the best thing I‘ll read this year. More people should see this. And by „more“ I mean „everybody“. Long, but very much worth it.

    fixthenews.com/p/the-telemetry

    #environment #doomerism #optimism #data

  5. Coming soon! My next essay:

    "Cassandra's Abiding Woe: Climate Change, Social Media, AI, and Why No One Believes Doomsayers Even After the Doom Has Happened"

    Here's a quote from the article:

    "Any existentialist can easily tell you what happens when a thing does not ontologically exist but must meaningfully exist within our own subjective experience of reality: we draw links wherever we like, with every color of the electromagnetic spectrum—some using invisible ink that hurts to look at without sunglasses. We link the things we directly see interact, such as how a man might fall to his knees upon getting racked between the legs—cause, effect. The Merovingian would be so proud of me."

    I hope you love or hate it when I'm done! No in-betweening. 💙

    #ClimateChange #AI #SocialMedia #Existentialism #Doomerism #Philosophy #CassandraComplex #Future #TechEthics #Collapse #EllisArcwolf #WritingCommunity

  6. Becuse my elderly father likes to bring his latest existential dread to me, I've been reading about #DemographicCollapse / #PopulationDecline & even some #leftist writers seem to ignore that we spent the last century worried about a #malthusian disaster.
    Obviously, it's a real problem, but are there good sources I can read/watch that aren't going to lead me to #doomerism?
    #nzpol #futurism

  7. Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers | …this is a wonderful and absolutely necessary tool for AI policy experts

    Perfect.

    Every day, thousands of researchers race to solve the AI alignment problem. But they struggle to coordinate on the basics, like whether a misaligned superintelligence will seek to destroy humanity, or just enslave and torture us forever. Who, then, aligns the aligners?

    We do.

    https://alignmentalignment.ai/

    #ai #alignment #apocalypse #doomerism #endOfWorld #feed #genAi #llm

  8. #Cyberpunk is no longer a futuristic genre. Its here now, a #dystopia we live in for the past decade. Welcome to cyberpunk 1.0, also called web 2.0 and now 3.0. I realized that everyone i see and know appears cynical, beat down and exhausted, exactly what you'd see in a dystopia. We have joy and hope as an act of rebellion, but faith in a good future or a future at all is gone. This isn't #doomerism its our entire state of mind we can't help but fear the future about. Fascism is the new spreading creeping terror eating everything in its path like a cancer, leading to planetary destruction like fears we had of nuclear Armageddon in the last century.
    A ray of hope still exists but it's exhausting to cling to and hold on to.
    We have to do everything we can to prevent cyberpunk 1.0 from upgrading to its next level or true dystopia will be upon us all
  9. @anneroth 2/2 Hier bekomme ich übrigens oft Infos/Links die ich sonst nie zu Gesicht bekommen hätte, positiv wie negativ.

    Und anders als auf den Billionärsplattformen haben die User es im Grunde (mehr) selbst in der Hand was aus ihrer TL wirklich wird.

    #vernetzen #organisieren #Sozialkontakt #doomerism #happyplace ....und das interessanterweise global.

  10. Today was a very good news day. Two federal judges moving towards holding administration people in contempt. A senator goes to #ElSalvador and learns information helpful to the #Garcia case.

    And a friend of mine reports that #doomerism is all over Facebook. People saying it's all hopeless, none of this matters.

    And one of my heroes here in the Fediverse, @GottaLaff , has been getting the same.

    This is like snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. 1/

  11. A bit I didn't include at the end of my #LotR / #climate analogy is that Frodo (or your average person living through #ClimateCollapse) doesn't succumb to the Morgul blade (#doomerism) but he's never the same even after bringing the Ring to Mordor.

    Dude has major PTSD, has Seen Things, and can't enjoy life the way he used to. He even tells Sam that he's saved the Shire, but not for him.

    Things will never be the same, even after the day has been saved. But things will *be*. And that matters.

  12. #stoicism is an easy, simple concept, as it seems.

    It looks as easy as the play of a great piano player.

    #stoicism can be a great part of your #mentalhealth #selfcare.

    It is a lifelong journey of exercise.

    Stay away from #Doomerism
    Enjoy every drop of water. No matter how full the glass may appear.

  13. The Collapse of Everything or King Charles III?
    Eliot Jacobson, Ph.D.

    "Sadly, however, there is almost no catastrophe big enough to move the needle of public opinion, even as increasingly devastating events are reported. Minds are mostly made up. We’ve got lives to live, family to grow with, friends to hang out with, travel, work, financial worries, entertainment, relationships, and most of all, Queen Elizabeth II and King Charles III.

    That’s right, damn it, the Queen is dead, long live the King! Meanwhile, billionaires are f&%king just about everyone, politicians continue to perform their rage-inciting gaslighting, there are wars and threats of wars, hyper-inflation and an energy shortage, sporting events, celebrity scandals, and somewhere a young white woman was killed by a black guy. But climate change and collapse? Mostly by day two the catastrophe just doesn’t make the cut. At best it’s page six news, relegated to the “global news” tab, an afterthought to appease the few who are paying attention."
    climatecasino.net/2022/09/the-

    #ClimateCrisis
    #Doomerism
    #CollapseAcceptance