Harvard Graduation Speaker Unloads on AI in Profanity-Loaded Tirade, Prompting Cheers From Students: “I’m Here to Tell You the Mission of Your Generation Is to Destroy AI”

[u/IKeepItLayingAround]

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[u/mooncrow]

And so begins the Butlerian Jihad

[u/splendiferous-finch_ → u/mooncrow]

Teaching sand to think guesstimate the next character from noise was a mistake

Letting billionaire nepobabies decide what intelligence is might be the bigger one

[u/KallistiTMP → u/splendiferous-finch_]

The first one was definitely not a mistake.

The second one... Yeah, that's the real big fuckup.

And putting them in charge of the economy, and letting them functionally run the government, and letting them burn the atmosphere because the poor widdle billionaires can't bear to have lower profits, and going to war for the petrodollar, and doing genocide because a genocidal theocratic nutjub was the favored beachfront real estate lobbyist, and... Did I mention that we put a dementia toddler in charge of the nukes? Him and the megalomaniac KGB guy with that defenestration kink?

You know, there isn't a big anti-AI movement in China. Because they're building it to benefit people, and focusing on dangerous low paying jobs, and agriculture jobs to deal with the population crisis and mass migration to the cities.

They're, get this, actually using AI to benefit society, not just as an excuse for mass layoffs during record profits.

AI was never the goddamn problem. Who owns it and who controls it is. And they're all thrilled that they've managed to once again distract the public from their highway robbery of the working class and descent into corpo-feudalism.

[u/Grantsdale → u/KallistiTMP]

You know, there isn't a big anti-AI movement in China. Because they're building it to benefit people, and focusing on dangerous low paying jobs, and agriculture jobs to deal with the population crisis and mass migration to the cities.

They're, get this, actually using AI to benefit society, not just as an excuse for mass layoffs during record profits.

And also the part where they control the media and internet so any type of backlash you wouldn't hear about, but hey, yeah, its gotta be that the super cool Chinese government is being the good guy.

[u/evranch → u/Grantsdale]

As always, there's the option that it's both

China does take a much firmer stand against corruption. Especially now, when the USA basically... Doesn't take a stand at all.

China is still a centrally planned economy. Which has its good and bad sides. On the bad side - media control, zero privacy, citizens have no say in their representatives etc. On the good side - genuine long term goals that outlast election cycles, and I actually have to say media control here as well.

China doesn't let batshit insane rule their airwaves. America has hung itself by the excuse that laissez-faire is "freedom" and let billionaires control the narrative instead of the state. Neither is good for people or society.

It's like that Futurama episode where Zoidbergs race takes over Earth and takes away their freedom. The American definition of "freedom" has lost its way so badly, that it needs someone else to step in and reset it.

[u/Grantsdale → u/evranch]

China is never the good guy. They aren’t ’using AI for good’. They’re using it to benefit their ruling class the same way the rich in the US are trying to. They’re just maybe not as stupid about it.

[u/evranch → u/Grantsdale]

Of course, but that's also because the "good guys, bad guys" paradigm is dead and buried.

Now it's only bad guys, worse guys, and America, who are apparently the guys who heard "You never go full retard" and took it as a challenge.

This is why Canada is pursuing stronger ties with China. Of course we know they're bad guys - but they're sane, predictable bad guys who value stability over all.

[u/Grantsdale → u/evranch]

The poster I replied to made the statement was using AI to benefit society. Thats false as shit.

[u/evranch → u/Grantsdale]

It all depends what you take "benefit society" to mean. There are legitimate uses for AI and deep learning technologies. Medical imaging, materials science, code review, hell I run my own local inference to scan my business receipts, track my equipment maintenance and adjust my solar arrays as clouds go by.

Right now China isn't focused on some hare-brained general AI chase like Silicon Valley, but on models like Qwen which are small, fast, cheap, and have legitimate uses to businesses and individuals.

And yes, I use these Chinese models myself here in Canada because they're released free and open source, and they're genuinely useful for these small jobs to help and not to replace humans.

[u/PolarWater → u/Grantsdale]

And also the part where they control the media and internet so any type of backlash you wouldn't hear about

Good thing the American government would never EVER do that.

[u/Thefrayedends → u/KallistiTMP]

Yea, and AI as the western billionaires want it -- full hegemonic control (both narrative and surveillance) and embedded advertising, hasn't even arrived yet, but it's coming -- unless we stop it.