Comment by mips_avatar

Comment by mips_avatar 4 days ago

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Ok well I didn't meet everyone in Vienna or Vietnam, but those I did meet hadn't been laid off in the name of AI (yesterday three of my friends were laid off from Amazon). And if you're laid off in Vienna you still have access to healthcare, and there's a functioning safety net, and just generally a sense that you're not alone in this. In the united states my apartment has a homeless man living beneath it and every night you hear him either screaming because he doesn't have access to drugs or laughing because he does. There's a not so subtle attitude that maybe people like that deserve to die. So yes maybe people in Vienna don't like AI, but you are wrong that they fear it in the way Americans do.

tim333 3 days ago

I think US social issues and AI are rather separate. We have quite a few AI worriers from the UK, Hinton being maybe the best known.

ewuhic 4 days ago

You have a very rosy picture of non-Pax-Americana.

  • mips_avatar 4 days ago

    Well I also visited Ethiopia this year and I got to hear first hand about the genocide in Tigray, I'm very aware of the horrifying atrocities that happen when social order and human rights break down.