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   Bob Mottram :debian: (bob@epicyon.libreserver.org)'s status on Saturday, 04-Nov-2023 06:13:39 JST Bob Mottram :debian:

   Listening to Sunak going on about #AI, these machine learning technologies are fundamentally conservative in that they assume that the future will be like the past. The predictions they make are remixes of the past, or at least follow the same logic as occured in the past.
   
   The problem with that is that although history may repeat it is not usually a literal replay of the past. The media of now - if it's any good - is not just strictly a remixed regurgitation of media from previous decades. The material conditions, assumptions and technologies of now are not just a clever algorithmic blend of the 1960s with the 1990s.

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     gnutelephony (gnutelephony@floss.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Nov-2023 06:13:37 JST gnutelephony

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     @bob but it matches the way conservatives desire "progress" ;). "Aristocracy was good enough for Plato, we can remix it for today."

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     gnutelephony (gnutelephony@floss.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Nov-2023 06:21:23 JST gnutelephony

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     @bob I am also proposing a new "solution" to the fermi paradox; the appearance of strong legal abstractions like copyright combined with the emergence of dumb language models that make (more original) biological thinking "unprofitable" leads to entrenched permanent barriers that effectively stagnate any further advancement of cognitive species until they intellectually degrade and eventually go extinct.