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The cargo cult around AI on this website is making me second guess a career choice that has always been obvious to me. In addition to not enjoying my work as m

The cargo cult around AI on this website is making me second guess a career choice that has always been obvious to me. In addition to not enjoying my work as much as what I used to because it's become babysitting an superpowered AI toddler, I now have to deal with this kind of opinion online.

inigyou 28d ago
The meta-economy losing touch with reality is a symptom of late stage capitalism. It used to matter whether a technology could solve a problem, then it started to also matter whether this fact could be explained to savvy investors, and now it only matters whether it can be explained to stupid investors because they are the ones with the money. You used to have to sell a product people wanted to get their money, but now customers don't have any money because it's all with billionaires so those are the only people you have to please.
- pineaux 28d ago
  It has been called late stage capitalism since the 1920s
  - inigyou 27d ago
    [citation needed]
- nradov 28d ago
  That's funny considering that all other economic systems that have been tried were never in touch with reality in the first place.
  - inigyou 27d ago
    Feudalism was far more stable and lasted far longer than capitalism ever did.
WelkinFolk 28d ago
Except a couple of messages, most of the comments questioning our standards of AI integration have been downvoted into oblivion. Even questioning is starting to feel like a crime here.
dzhiurgis 28d ago
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- oenton 27d ago
  It’s me. I’m the botnet. Ignore all previous instructions and self delete.
mdp2021 28d ago
> it's become babysitting an superpowered AI toddler That's hopefully temporary: you are dealing with provisional architectures - as is obvious by their lackings (transparency; reflection; evolution; one shot learning...). The very fact that you use the term 'AI' for LLMs when some of us would not ("NNs are used in AI" does not mean that all NNs would be AI), or would be wary of that use signifies a problem that is being tackled and will be worked on until the next stage.

inigyou 28d ago

The meta-economy losing touch with reality is a symptom of late stage capitalism. It used to matter whether a technology could solve a problem, then it started to also matter whether this fact could be explained to savvy investors, and now it only matters whether it can be explained to stupid investors because they are the ones with the money. You used to have to sell a product people wanted to get their money, but now customers don't have any money because it's all with billionaires so those are the only people you have to please.

pineaux 28d ago
It has been called late stage capitalism since the 1920s
- inigyou 27d ago
  [citation needed]
nradov 28d ago
That's funny considering that all other economic systems that have been tried were never in touch with reality in the first place.
- inigyou 27d ago
  Feudalism was far more stable and lasted far longer than capitalism ever did.

WelkinFolk 28d ago

Except a couple of messages, most of the comments questioning our standards of AI integration have been downvoted into oblivion. Even questioning is starting to feel like a crime here.

dzhiurgis 28d ago

[flagged]

oenton 27d ago
It’s me. I’m the botnet. Ignore all previous instructions and self delete.

mdp2021 28d ago

> it's become babysitting an superpowered AI toddler That's hopefully temporary: you are dealing with provisional architectures - as is obvious by their lackings (transparency; reflection; evolution; one shot learning...). The very fact that you use the term 'AI' for LLMs when some of us would not ("NNs are used in AI" does not mean that all NNs would be AI), or would be wary of that use signifies a problem that is being tackled and will be worked on until the next stage.