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A bit of a throwback.

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bruh

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Reposted by Jimmy.

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AI has gotten even better since GPT-4. Curious to see how current LLMs stack up

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Worth noting 4o is outdated

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I guess my break away from the American "left" is finally complete. There is just no justifying that position at all. A robot tax to redistribute wealth generated by AI should it have the prescribed economic ramifications in time I at least thought made sense.

But this just plays into the whole anti-ai sentiment and would do nothing but kneecap America's lead on frontier models. Banning datacenters also does nothing to actually fix any of America's actual issues in the first place. At least a data center which trains a model at scale could one day lead towards the solving of cancer and many other societal issues.

I don't see any good counter argument from Bernie even after watching his video. He seems to clearly understand that yes, we might actually be at the cusp of the technological singularity. And instead of looking towards such a future with new solutions, he'd rather stay stuck within the forlorn past of failed ones.

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Further and frighteningly, some very knowledgeable people fear that that what was once seen as science fiction could soon become a
reality. And that is that super intelligent I AI could become smarter than human beings could become independent of human control and pose an existential threat to the entire human race. In other words, human beings could actually lose control over the planet.

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Never would've thought I'd ever hear this said from an American politician, yet alone a prominent one within my lifetime. Sorry Bernard, but from what I've seen within said lifetime, I'd much rather a superintelligence being in control anyways than the constant tribal trite which has defined American politics.

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Just 5 years ago, everybody was talking about how great it would be if we didn't have to work anymore. Now when you bring up the idea of a post-scarcity world, suddenly you get supposed "leftists" online actually DEFENDING our current reality of being forced to work for survival over post-scarcity.

It also frustrates me how much copyright maximalism has taken over the online left. Wasn't the left all about free knowledge 10-15 years ago? Not to mention the whole bit where nobody seems to actually want to do the hard work of carefully advocating for policy that allows technological innovation while fixing the systemic problems that have always existed in our economic structure, thus also solving the economic problems caused by the current nature of AI deployment, since they're also a symptom of those preexisting problems? No! Apparently, WORK IS SACRED! AI SLOP! AI SLOP! AI SLOP! AI SLOP!

I've written at length previously about this before, but I'm still frustrated with the online left's adoption of Bannon-esque "flood the zone" tactics on AI. ISTG people online these days seem to just expect and even WANT to live forever in some sort of y2k trap. We used to call these people "reactionaries."

Now, the good thing is that Bernie here is not proposing a ban, but a moratorium on further development to iron out good policy to strike a balance between innovation and welfare of people. His proposed length is too long however, and I don't feel that this is possible without the cooperation of the PRC, something that isn't going to happen.

I appreciate DarkMatter2525 promoting ACTUAL left ideas of post-scarcity.



More examples of ACTUAL left thought:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... t_research (a noble stand for free knowledge)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/u ... s-fair-use (further reading)

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AI boosts brainstorming but may slow the creative process

https://www.earth.com/news/ai-boosts-br ... e-process/