Normally Caitlin writes about Israel and their policy capture of the West at the expense of our basic morals. This was a rare AI take of hers, but the imagery of it was so visceral I thought I’d share.
Quotation reads:
They’re encouraging us to spend our lives curled up in impotent little balls of emotional infancy and intellectual stagnation so that they can sell us machines which act as digital prostheses for the sacred parts of ourselves we have amputated. We mustn’t let them do this to us. We must remain human. We must hold fast to all those precious aspects of our humanity they’re trying to extract and commodify.
“A cool use case for AI” that isnt pattern recognition on scientific data orders of magnitude above human capability is otherwise known as “an insane waste of resources and violation of privacy”
If youre not protein folding youre just burning tires in your backyard and going “wow, see? I found a way to paint the side of my house”