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It does not matter if the AI is sentient,
it does not matter if the AI as real emotions.
The problem is that the conversational interface is potent
and that the AI is trained on a lot of human text input
which unfortunately is probably enough to do real damage
if that conversational interface is hooked up with something that has real world consequences.
Humans do stupid shit,
and with that conversational AIs might do too.
I Think AI Would Kill My Wife
pocoo.org
Through decades of corporate greed, production has become almost entirely separated from capital, meaning that executives (and higher-ups) are no longer able to understand the nature of the businesses they are growing.
By not actively participating in the creation of the labor that enriches them, they are unable to truly understand trends within their business, because they’re only aware of how it works on the most distant level.
And because they do not participate, they do not appreciate *profit* — they only appreciate *more profit than they previously had.*
Absentee Capitalism
Ed Zitron
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How Indexes Make Your Queries Fast
Julia Evans
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