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There are two distinct camps forming on the topic of AI:

1. It is going to kill us all

2. It could bring unprecedented human flourishing

The statists, democracy-fanbois, people who believe in nonsense like “intellectual property”, essentially those who defer to authority and hierarchy fall in to the first camp.

The individualists, anarchists, “information wants to be free” types in to the second.

You can more-or-less guess what someone’s opinion on AI is going to be by inferring from other points of their worldview.
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Stuart Bowman 2y ago

I'm not afraid of AI, I'm afraid of what governments will do with it given the chance. To me it seems like AI in its current form (massive LLMs that have to be run in data centers) naturally favors the further centralization of power. If AI becomes accessible in a more decentralized and permissionless way I could see that changing the balance and leading to human flourishing. My two sats

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