You know what concerns me? Venture capital has started a ball rolling, which HN plays no small part in. VCs exist as an apparatus of America's massive financialized economy, and therefore understands that the system is overleveraged again. We have so much more debt than we're capable of working off, and therefore the people with money want to spend it on moonshots. Cryptocurrency scams, viral marketing schemes, AI shenanigans among the latest. What is the sum of all this? What work is really being done, besides the financier economics we've seen since the 1980s and the dev outsourcing we've seen since the 90s?
Maybe AI swarms do pose some weird contrived threat to democracy. Pieces like this will inevitably be laundered by the American intelligentsia like Karpathy or Hinton, and turned into some polemic hype-piece on social media proving that "safe AI" must be prioritized in a row for regulation. It's borderline ineffable to admit on HN, but America's obsession over speculative economics has pretty much ruined our chance at seizing a technological future that can benefit anyone. Now AI, like crypto before it and the dotcom bubble too, is overleveraged. "Where's the money, Lebowski?"
Maybe AI swarms do pose some weird contrived threat to democracy. Pieces like this will inevitably be laundered by the American intelligentsia like Karpathy or Hinton, and turned into some polemic hype-piece on social media proving that "safe AI" must be prioritized in a row for regulation. It's borderline ineffable to admit on HN, but America's obsession over speculative economics has pretty much ruined our chance at seizing a technological future that can benefit anyone. Now AI, like crypto before it and the dotcom bubble too, is overleveraged. "Where's the money, Lebowski?"