Post #791680
2026-03-26 17:14 UTC
Replies (8)
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@aburka@hachyderm.io 2026-03-26 17:26
@zanzi how do you propose using a technology based on theft and exploitation as a means of liberation? not everything has an enlightened centrist take unfortunately
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@Andrev@types.pl 2026-03-26 17:52
@zanzi you mean beside the people working in your office?
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@D3Reo@sigmoid.social 2026-03-26 18:18
@zanzi i might be wrong but I believe that the main reason why such takes don't take much place in the mainstream discussions is that many people in that camp, or adjacent to that camp, are riding the hell out of the horse of the argument that this technology, at the stage it currently is, is not that good yet and cannot be relied on to actually do stuff. At least, that's what I could make out of it. It does seem a bit ungenerous and biased. This and also the argument about water voracity.
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@metarecursive@mathstodon.xyz 2026-03-26 18:20
@zanzi I think they're a better platform for the systems of computation for augmented intelligence that Engelbart spoke about than they are a platform for AGI. One actual issue is they couple that augmentation to capital. So, a new compounding advantage worsening inequality. But it's also multiplicative: it just amplifies whatever direction it's turned to. Not necessarily always leading anywhere meaningful or productive.
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@jnkrtech@social.treehouse.systems 2026-03-26 18:33
@zanzi @hongminhee has written a number of pieces about this.
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@burakemir@discuss.systems 2026-03-26 19:14
@zanzi "Discourse" is the key word here: the ongoing power struggle to define what counts as science and knowledge. It is ok to reject the accelerationist message of those in power, but people overdo the rejection and posture around technology-as-instrument-of-class-war. I use LLMs every day and am trying to figure out how to use them for meaningful purposes. It is hard to have a nuanced discussion against a backdrop of winner-takes-it-all-capitalist techno fascism and copyright being used as weapon and at the same time ignored precondition for artist livelihood. Dark times! There are a lot of good uses of LLMs even if the method of production and operation remains problematic, but it would be as important as ever to discuss openly, support each other and consider standards for ethical use and organized action in this situation.
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@kouki21@unredacted.social 2026-03-26 21:59
@zanzi some of the leftists are artists, hobbyists, and sex workers, the same people who are harmed by and against AI.
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@D3Reo@sigmoid.social 2026-04-12 11:49
@zanzi just came across this video which is somewhat related, it's kind of long so I watched it at 2x, but personally I found it worth its while https://youtu.be/y85nqc2zm7M?is=Aqb_Jg8J83yuTnK-