I used to point out that mutualism can actually be good in nature. But this isn’t that.

This is closer to when old hate-mongering Henry Ford built his vision of a car-dependent future by subsidizing the sell of his own automobiles so that everyone could afford them. That de-prioritized public transport (like cable cars and electric trolleys), created a transit class-gap, reserved significant fractions of urban land for parking, not to mention the pollution.

Fuck vertical integration.

This is why profit reports are irrelevant. All that matters is whether OpenAI is able to innovate here using Huang’s captive resources. I just don’t expect it to happen in these monoliths.

OP hadn’t realized that “Ras Trent” (2008) was a parody and wanted more.

Steelmanning is what wins arguments. For example if I were to say that your argument amounts to little more than lazy contrariness some percentage of us Lemmings would see that as uncharitable, regardless of whether they agreed with my position. I’m not suggesting updoots are important, just that discourse is.

That being said while education and socialization aren’t inherently dependent on one another, certain subjects like debate, civics, and ethics should likely be taught in group settings (as well as more often). PhysEd as well.

But if harder sciences and math have the potential to be taught outside the sometimes stressful social hierarchies of traditional schools, it’s worth at least exploring.

PS: Regarding your username, have you seen the excellent Philip Seymour Hoffman movie “Love Liza”?

In what way does AI prevent people from socializing with one another?

Exactly. Our immune system is excellent but its immune cell exploration space is on the order of 10^11 potential receptors.

So since RNA viruses in particular can mutate so rapidly, we just use our brains to reduce that by 10+ orders of magnitude and target the antigens we want directly. The end result is the same, biotech is just smarter.

“Know your enemy and know yourself and you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.” ~biotech

You’re assuming the alternative that billionaires, despite being a tiny fraction of the population, will be in control of such gatekeeping.

Your argument against an openly available AI precludes the existence of things like the FOSS community. Smart people who oppose capitalist power structures certainly exist.

• The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. The corrupting nature of power is known by the majority. Billionaires just ignore it because capitalism rewards executives who exhibit psychopathic symptoms.

• I don’t believe anyone’s arguing LLMs will evolve into AGI.

• Thats a conclusion of substrate dependency. What’s so special about the matter (not the process) that facilitates human cognition that makes it impossible to happen with other materials?

In what way does AI detract from social skill development?

Chatbots aren’t the endpoint tho, AGI and ASI are. Imagine a future where we could disseminate custom AIs to teach kids exactly in their unique contexts. Education could be throttled and specialized according to everyone’s aptitudes.

And if the people are able to decide what future ASIs work on we could focus on massive healthcare, leading to inevitable healthspan extension. Then the rate at which we have to replace our population (and the associated spending of 20 years reteaching intelligent citizens) would be reduced as a consequence.

AI is just a tool. Tools are never rolled back, at most they’re only regulated. Why not make the best of our future with this powerful tool? Just because billionaires are getting the headlines, most of the progress is being done in academia. Maybe AI will even help facilitate reduced wealth inequality.

Interpreted the Betazed as being analogous to bipolar. I interpreted the peaceful vs war schools to be representations of contrasting political parties. There’s so many more options now and short attention spans are being rewarded. Am happy to give the show time to grow its Riker beard.

I liked the series, even though it felt like its own thing. But when I finally got to the Jay-Den focused episode the whole thing immediately gave updated TNG vibes. The adults in the cast are excellent philosophy-heavy mentors and I find myself repeatedly rewinding their scenes to recontextualize their pearls in terms of my own life. If I had one gripe it’d be all the YA aspects, but I immediately retract that as I want the series to also appeal to the yutes. Tawny Newsome is my hero.