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@[url=https://anticapitalist.party/users/Angle]Angle🖇[/url] @[url=https://fedicy.us.to/cy]Cy[/url] I mean, it’s already awful, just not for the reasons AI doomerists are thinking about. Which is kind of sobering in a way because if you ignore the simply fantastical exponential improvement claims, it can’t get that much worse than that.

Half of the first world is mesmerized by its output, including people who are making it, leading to suicides; a part of the third world is subjugated to cognito-hazards in order to improve it; and it’s blatant circular economy is due for a major market reckoning which will grind the world economy to a sudden stop. Like you said, it’s already taken over the world, just not in the glamorized fashion AI cultists are describing, so it can’t really get much worse than that.

I didn’t keep on reading Plan A propositions because I assume wrong priors will give wrong conclusions, but the time to do something about it is behind us. The US government, the only regulatory power to be able to do something about it has been captured by AI, again, not in the calculating manipulation fashion sci-fi authors have enjoyed describing rogue AI, just through unfettered greed and old-fashioned xenophobia. So we have two full years ahead of us where US companies will be free to do whatever they want, which is still trying to find a path to profit which these systems as they are cannot offer for structural reasons. And that flailing around will cause some more harm, but it will still be directed by humans.