This is lost on people. A 98% accurate automation is useful if you can programmatically identify the 2% of cases that need human review. If you can’t, and it matters, then every case needs human review.
So you lose a lot of benefits to the time sync, but since people tend to have their eye glaze over when the correction rate is low, you may still miss the 2% anyway.
This is going to put a stop to a lot of ideas that sound reasonable on paper.
Yes. I’m trying it, it’s too early for me to state a conclusion, but it’s not clear what the point is of an interface that requires magic touch best described as je ne sais quoi.
The alternative to this isn’t even necessarily no AI, just not using it this way.
Better yet, if you have something to say, please just write your own post, in your own voice. Why do you find this interesting? Explain it to me over coffee, but in ink.
If the reader wanted to hear from a robot we would ask it directly.
AI marketing is dystopian. They describe a world where most people are suddenly starving and homeless, and just when you start to think “hey this sounds like the conditions to create something like a French Revolution but where Bastille is a data center” they pivot to BUY MY PRODUCT SO YOU DON'T GET LEFT BEHIND.
It’s advertising straight through the amygdala.
I have no idea if they actually believe this. But it’s repulsive behavior.
I'm legitimately terrified by these people, and seriously worried now that this is not just hype and that they truly don't care about what will happen. And that they may use these models to insulate themselves from the consequences when that time comes.
Nick Land is arguably the most influential philosopher in SV (at least over the past 3 years). Marc Andreessen's acknowledgment of Land in his 2023 The Techno-Optimist Manifesto has brought his underground influence more to the surface.
Land's explicit anti-humanism can be repulsive to some on first encounter, but some of his ideas -- e.g. about the identity of capitalism and AI, the autonomization of capital, the technological singularity as capitalism's inherent teleology -- are interesting and can provide a very unique perspective.
It's also important to note that he tends to resonate more with creative types. Historically, these were mostly artists. Today, they are also founders (who are psychometrically similar to artists at the population level).
So you lose a lot of benefits to the time sync, but since people tend to have their eye glaze over when the correction rate is low, you may still miss the 2% anyway.
This is going to put a stop to a lot of ideas that sound reasonable on paper.
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