Readit NewsFinnLobsien commented on A.I. Is Coming for Culture newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/petethomas
I thought this piece was absolutely stellar because it's neither "AI is bad and we should stop all development" nor "You're only allowed to love AI because it's the next big thing."
I genuinely wonder what happens when media consumption is disassembled from its previous forms. Part of that has already happened where podcasts, shows and movies are now being created for the TikTok clips.
The few times I've watched TikTok, I realized recommendation algorithms with human-generated content are already impossible to ignore and best excised. They absorb attention because that's what they're designed to do.
I don't want to know what happens when the algorithms just experiment on our attention by themselves because they're hooked up to the actual generation of the content they'll push. When they form hypotheses on what we'll pay attention to, autonomously generate the content and push it out, where does that take us?
My hope is that these things will become like smoking: Available for adults, generally accepted to be a bad thing and stigmatized to do around other people.
FinnLobsien commented on A bubble that knows it's a bubble craigmccaskill.com/ai-bub... · Posted by u/craigmccaskill
3d printing has gone somewhat mainstream unlike the others. Manufacturers use it and it's somewhat common to see stuff that's been 3d printed being sold or created as small run prototypes.
Yeah and that’s exactly what I mean. It’s found its place and is a useful technology. But it has not revolutionized entire industries like the internet, smartphone etc
FinnLobsien commented on A bubble that knows it's a bubble craigmccaskill.com/ai-bub... · Posted by u/craigmccaskill
>Housing is back … Nothing was a bubble.
Ironic how you can contradict yourself without realizing. The fact that something "came back", meant it WAS a bubble that popped.
I think there's a big difference between things that have always been bought and sold (housing, oil, food, minerals, etc.) and actual net-new technology that may or may not pay off on its promise.
The former can be overvalued (see housing pre-2008), but we'll never come to the conclusion that it's useless or only needed in niche use cases. In that case, the item itself isn't really the bubble. The bubble is in what enables the irrational prices (e.g. subprime mortgages).
The latter can definitely be a bubble where the technology just isn't useful for a given use case (or at all).
There's a pretty clear theory of alcohol as social lubricant, and people with more active social lives having better mental health and slower cognitive decline in old age.
There's also a surprisingly strong link between alcohol use and exercise, that persists even when you look at "heavy drinking levels" [0].
In fact, given the fact that alcohol use has such a high effect on certain medical conditions, but such a low impact on all-cause mortality, you can be certain that alcohol use has some strong positive health effects. And it's down to individual circumstances whether the positives are likely to outweigh the negatives.
> There's a pretty clear theory of alcohol as social lubricant, and people with more active social lives having better mental health and slower cognitive decline in old age.
Sure, but you can have an active social life without consuming alcohol and have the benefits of not drinking AND having an active social life.
> There's also a surprisingly strong link between alcohol use and exercise, that persists even when you look at "heavy drinking levels" [0].
Couldn't this be the same fallacy? i.e. the people who don't drink self-exclude from drinking AND exercise because they're sick or injured or whatever?
Or could it be that people who are more active in general just do both things more?
like, of course AI is coming for culture if even the New Yorker, a very well known American cultural magazine, is willing to leverage it to avoid paying an artist to create a short video.
The article doesn't even argue that AI is exclusively horrible and must be banished.