It's disconcerting watching Nostr devs promote the idea that LLMs can and *should* replace all human expertise, knowledge, ingenuity, creativity, and wisdom, so that persons with none of these can accomplish the same intellectual feats as those with lots of it. I've never seen anyone ask the obvious follow-up question: Why do you still need that person, then? Because, then... you don't. You don't need a single person, of any type, anywhere. This is the sort of thing we see being built here because the people paying for the building have an LLM to sell you and the pesky humans are just slowing the LLM down. You are the intelligence they want to reduce.

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Condor 0 years ago
Machines are not humans and their ability to automatize has nothing to do with creativity
i don't need to have contact with a society full of people who are that stupid that they believe this claptrap. so i will move far away from them and narrow my contact with the world to the humans who actually matter to me. and pray to God that he brings the micronova as soon as i am ready to survive it.
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Josua Schmid 0 years ago
We always underestimate complexity. I think we saw peak AI already.
This has been the most shocking part of my nostr experience. I also find the cheerleading of big tech companies to be odd. I’m surprised this group isn’t more skeptical of them and how their AIs can be used to potentially crush human freedom.
There are some who think we aren't necessarily the end of the evolutionary story. That the next evolution of intelligent beings may be machines. Meaning we become just another piece of the record and go extinct. I think that's a possible, but boring outcome. There are those who worship that idea though, probably from a self-hatred they've never dealt with.