← Back to context

Comment by cowpig

8 hours ago

You are capable of considering effects of systems outside of your immediate, moment-to-moment needs?

are _you_ capable of consdering the advantages that AI can bring instead of simply focusing on the easy parts like pollution and energy?

  • AI has incredible potential for both

    But the negatives are spiraling out of control. Pollution and energy and the amplification of structural social problems like wealth stratification, authoritarianism, media manipulation...

    With great power comes great responsibility, and we're living in an era in which our culture has shifted dramatically towards accepting immoral, short-sighted, and reckless behaviour.

    • you could have said the same about any technology - industrial revolution, the internet - anything really.

      always easy to talk about concerns.

With no disrespect to GorbachevyChase, I am going to say that this lack of understanding externalities is a trait of sociopathy.