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I understand the rationale but it's still really disappointing to hear so many people just take the "AI isn't going to go away so you should just learn and adapt to it" position, like man animal cruelty at scale hasn't gone away and people are still vegetarians
@distractal the rationale is that basically since the 2008 crash tech has been in a race to see who can become too big to fail and they know governments will let them get away with it and/or bail them out (which sucks, to be clear, but seems to be what's happening)
@ingrid I like and agree with this analogy. I don't want to support AI dudes or their planet-destroying technology as much as I don't want to support animal cruelty and factory farming
@ingrid You're right, but forgive me, because I *don't* understand the rationale.
Speaking from a barbaric, sociopathic capitalist perspective, animal cruelty at scale is at least profitable. AI IS NOT.
The one metric capitalists have used for centuries is not being applied to AI, for some reason.
Short-term shareholder return seems to have supplanted it, but anyone with two functioning brain cells can see that absolutely does not work for long-term stability.
So, based on not only that it does not meet the previous metric for success, but also that it is impossible for an industry built on hype and pure speculation to continue forever, it is FAR from inevitable.
The "inevitable" stuff is obeying in advance.