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lucash.dev 2y ago

Of course all the usual suspects are now asking for regulation of AI to prevent it from “spreading misinformation”

That’s just more of the same totalitarian censorship mantra.

Let me tell you a secret — you can’t regulate Artificial Intelligence. Just like you can’t regulate gravity or math.

The only thing you can regulate are human beings.

AI is just software. And software is speech.

What they want is to tell you what you can say, what you can code — what you can think.

AI is just one more excuse.

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lucash.dev 2y ago

Yes AI might be dangerous — if people decide to trust it.

Yes, misinformation can be a problem — if people are too gullible to believe anything they hear.

The problem isn’t people or machines being allowed freedom to say whatever.

The problem is our absurd clown world based on “mandated trust”

A world where nobody trusts anything would be an immense improvement over the status quo.

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lucash.dev 2y ago

The “clown world” works by mistaking the signs for the things, the metrics for the results, mistake words for biology, legislation for Law, debt for money.

Mistake the appearance of trust for trustworthiness.

“High trust societies” aren’t “high trust” because people “just happen to trust institutions”.

Forcing people to pretend to trust institutions achieves nothing.

You need the institutions to be trustworthy first — then to earn the trust of people with much effort.

It is precisely by baking skepticism towards institutions into the institutions themselves that you make institutions earn the trust of even the most skeptical citizens.

“You’ll have to trust me or I’ll make you pay ” can only lead to chaos