For my argument, I only need to point out that it was attempted, as I'm proving motivation; the effectiveness of CA methods has no bearing on the effectivenss of (say) simulated people.
Increasingly, when interacting with comments on HN and elsewhere, it feels like I'm from a parallel timeline where things happened, and mattered, and an ever-growing percentage of my interlocutors are, for lack of a better word, dissociated. Perhaps not in the clinical sense, but certainly in the following senses:
- Cause and effect are not immediately observed without careful prompting.
- Intersubjectively verifiable historical facts that happened recently are remembered hazily, and doubtfully, even by very intelligent people
- Positions are expressed that somehow disinclude unfavourable facts.
- Data, the gold standard for truth and proof, is not sought, or, if proffered, is not examined. The stances and positions held seem to have a sort of 'immunity' to evidence.
- Positions which are not popular in this specific community are downranked without engagement or argument, instead of discussed.
I do believe folks are working backward from the emotional position they want to maintain to a set of minimizing beliefs about the looming hazards of this increasingly fraught decade.
Let's call this knee-jerk position "un-alarmism", as in "that's just un-alarmism".
Those two are grest examples of companies being hit with huge fines or bans in the EU after their practices were discovered. Saying "capitalism" as if that's an argument is juvenile - by that logic we will soon be enslaved by big corporations, nothing we can do about it then.
'juvenile' is a juvenile way of describing a ~200-year-old intellectual tradition that you disagree with. Go call Piketty.
And yes, frankly, the emergence of generative AI does vastly accelerate the normal power concentration inherent in unregulated capitalist accumulation. Bad thing go fast now soon.
I've read Piketty, he calls for more regulation to address the issues associated with disparities in capital accumulation. He does not merely puts his hands in the air and predicts inescapable doom.
The irony here is that Western capitalist democracies are the only place where we can even think about getting these privacy protections.
have you met capitalism?
I feel like I'm talking to someone from the timeline where Clearview AI and Cambridge Analytics never happened.