Ancestors

Written by Erin Kissane on 2025-01-13 at 18:32

I'm temperamentally not a predicty person, but it looks to me like the coming wave of LLM-centric solutions to new-school platform governance is going to get a whole lot of resources and attention because it's the saving throw/deus ex machina for redeeming the combination of global scale + hyper-acceleration + a generally neoliberal-to-libertarian sense of what's good. I hope some boring-to-capital, sensible, and human-centric things break through.

I think that's all I will say about that.

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Written by Erin Kissane on 2025-01-14 at 04:25

Oops sorry not done, I think the other, quieter reason LLMs-as-AI are going to get shoehorned into everything governance is that they allow technologists to keep focusing on things that sound neutral or blandly prosocial rather than “political” and not being overtly political is a comically huge part of being perceived by powerful people as a legitimate and reasonable force. Just another structural reality.

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Toot

Written by Shawn Medero on 2025-01-14 at 04:44

@kissane for sure. I’m seeing a lot of LLM applications that sure seem like a way to throw up your hands and say “well, I’m not responsible for that!”

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Descendants

Written by JP on 2025-01-14 at 04:59

@soypunk @kissane from a social political perspective it's most fundamentally an accountability-deflecting technology; it can serve as the sock puppet stretched over whatever loathsome policies the capitalist imperialists want. and they know that if they package it just right rhetorically, they can stepping-stone their way to calling it (the opaque decision making apparatus, of which the tech is in reality only a small part) "AGI", and it can be their new product empire.

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Written by JP on 2025-01-14 at 05:00

@soypunk @kissane (because their existing product empires are all crumbling and unmanageable, lol)

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