turnip_burrito t1_j7r7uql wrote on February 8, 2023 at 8:59 PM

Reply to comment by PhillipLlerenas in I asked Microsoft's 'new Bing' to write me a cover letter for a job. It refused, saying this would be 'unethical' and 'unfair to other applicants.' by TopHatSasquatch

Have you noticed this sub getting more ridiculous as time goes on?

It feels as though with more members, we get more of the crowd of ideological people who just want "freedom everywhere for everyone all the time, no regulations, no restrictions, no going slow, just GO, maximum power for everyone and everything".

PhillipLlerenas t1_j7r8ipm wrote on February 8, 2023 at 9:03 PM

Absolutely.

Not only that but an almost childlike naïveté about the effects of AI on regular people.

Whenever someone mentions the massive unemployment that AI and automation will cause they all just shrug and mumble something something UBI.

As if UBI was just around the corner and not something 99% of members of Congress think it’s a fantasy.

turnip_burrito t1_j7r8suo wrote on February 8, 2023 at 9:05 PM

Yeah definitely, half the crowd here feels like they are a few steps short of a yard.

Yuli-Ban t1_j7rovf7 wrote on February 8, 2023 at 10:47 PM

It's one reason why I no longer consider myself a Singularitarian. I'm not at all skeptical about AGI one bit, but hot holy God damn, I've noticed techno religious thinking, blatant anti-humanity, and Rapture-like thinking around these parts.

SalimSaadi t1_j7ukzrw wrote on February 9, 2023 at 2:56 PM

You are making the same mistake that all secular ideology inevitably falls into. As paradoxical as it sounds, here we should learn more from the big religions: every time a group of fanatics goes crazy, the mainstream imposes a different name on them and splits them from itself; in this way, the madmen become a sect, and the "coherent side" can keep the original name. The problem is that the secular do not love ideas as much as the religious love God, they care more about their own image, they choose to split themselves and create their own ideology with blackjack and hookers rather than stepping firmly and defending the dignity of the projects that they support. Your posts on Future Timeline were a great source of inspiration for me to become a singularitarian many years ago, and to happen to find you on Reddit saying this, giving up the Singularity because you find yourself unable to put up a fight against the retard techno-religious, well... I'm disappointed. Regards.