What People Mean When They Say "i Hate Ai"
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I was trying to zoom in on exactly what people don't like.
When we speak of syntactical essence, we’re speaking more than simply AI, I’m including the binary cauterization.
The sterile solutionism that tears away the syntax from operation is a massive hole, a void that segregates animal thought from machine.
Know what you are really talking about.
That engineers do not recognize the toyness, the cheap practicality of remaining at the binary at the expense of syntax-analog says an immense amount of where we are and how bad things are.
What's so shocking I think is how comp sci programs separated fromeven basic principles of engineering to craft software. Engineers at least had to adhere to resonances and structural loads and geologic principles. Software has no tether to reality except as A/B tested cog-sci intuition, which has nothing to do with neuroscience or even psychology. The only rules of software is to get the audience using it and extracting value "within reason" which is dictated by Wall Street. Software is in a sense, where animal life goes to die.
Try seeing AI as the symptom humanity can finally recognize about how badly the last 50 years have been of the PC age.
AI is software's achille's heel giveaway.
It was a bad idea from the beginning, Von Neumann, Shannon, McCullough got it entirely wrong (though Shannon admitted as such late in career).
I think what people hate is the sense of quality degradation. Everything feels cheap. Everything feels like it's meant to be consumed in the next 20 seconds, and then forgotten about. People want stuff that doesn't suck.