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2026-10-05 09:55 UTC

@nixCraft@mastodon.social When I explain to my colleagues and coworkers that effective altruism-longtermism think tanks in tech defend that it is ethical to harm a lot of people today if it permits building science fiction technologies that will benefit billions of yet inexistent humans who will live in the next centuries, they look as me like I'm some sort of conspiracy lunatic. But this is exactly what they are always saying! In the front pages! And yet nobody wants to acknowledge this is a political trend!

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  • @elrohir@mastodon.gal 2026-10-05 10:32

    @nixCraft@mastodon.social Addendum: I am not even going to get into comment discussions if any come arguing technicalities about medical triage or mosquito nets preventing malaria. THE MOST IMPORTANT PROBLEM IS THAT LLMS CANNOT DELIVER WORK AT A INDUSTRIALREVOLUTIONARY SCALE. Sure they can compose an email or two, but there is a lot of evidence AGAINST the future advancements delivering on the bigger promises. They are only saying this to beguile stock investors! It's just a rigged Pascal's wager of bullshit!

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  • @gustl@metalhead.club 2026-10-05 10:45

    @elrohir@mastodon.gal @nixCraft@mastodon.social Yeah, that's quite frustrating. Something i personally am really furious about is how journalism won't pick up and report on that (there are exceptions, yes, but not many).

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  • @ravenbait@mastodon.scot 2026-10-05 11:01

    @elrohir@mastodon.gal @nixCraft@mastodon.social Has something happened that means the mastofeed is all Zizian today? Is it yet another billionaire techbro claiming the most effective altruist he can be is a cryptocurrency zillionaire so he can bring about a genius AI basilisk that will solve all our problems? Living in the future isn't remotely what I expected.

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  • @kinderstampfer@mstdn.social 2026-10-05 14:03

    @elrohir@mastodon.gal @nixCraft@mastodon.social exactly this! People ask me what i think about LLMs and if i only go slightly in this perfectly fine documented direction, i am suddenly the lunatic instead of the longtermism death cult bros. Can't even properly describe what that makes me feel.

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