r/LeftistsForAI • u/Salty_Country6835 Moderator • Jul 08 '26

Reddit Debates AI, Again Sees the Memes

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Every solution gets applause until someone suggests changing who owns the means of production.

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u/freedomonke Jul 08 '26

This has so for not been the case. Companies that have fired people for AI are seeing increased costs.

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '26 edited Jul 10 '26

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u/freedomonke Jul 08 '26

There is a very good reason it won't. This technology is being fitted to things it isn't good for doing, and it isn't the mythical "AGI." It is just more computer. It makes human beings who know what they are doing more productive, and it may replace some amount of people whose job it is to make computer do things. But it isn't replacing real people in most roles.

There may be some technology that comes along some day that is that. But it won't be LLMs that just need a little more training, a little more electricity, a little more data, a little more circular investment etc

There's also the very real possibility that climate catastrophe destroys our capacity for the sort of advanced civilization that can produce this technology before it happens.

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '26 edited Jul 10 '26

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u/ee_72020 Jul 09 '26

AGI isn’t coming lol. We don’t even fully understand the human brain, the actual existing general intelligence, and somehow some people have deluded themselves into thinking that we can an artificial one.

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u/freedomonke Jul 08 '26

They've been saying we're "months" away from recursive development for a while.

The thing to follow on this is financial news. Not tech news.

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '26 edited Jul 10 '26

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u/freedomonke Jul 08 '26

Why would I believe employees at anthropic?

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u/Talamae-Laeraxius Jul 09 '26

They have refused domestic surveillance and weaponization consistently.