Wandering Adventure Party

@lokeloski Gen AI can replace incompetent people. Well, it will be incompetent, too, but often somewhat better.

Same with self-driving cars. Self-driving cars replacing incompetent drivers and driving somewhat better than them is good enough to improve overall traffic safety.

We like to compare AI with the best people out there — we made the same mistake with chess players and go players and only accepted AI superiority when AI was able to beat the world champion; but it was playing better than average a decade before.

Current Gen AI is certainly worse than the best. But we don't have that many best people out there. We have a lot of stupid, uneducated people. And we have them in positions of power where they never should have been promoted to, and they do spectacularly wrong things there.

We are constantly overestimating human intelligence, too. Not just Gen AI intelligence.

@Daojoan Maybe we got the idea of free speech wrong. It's about the right to be right. Being wrong is usually no problem in fascist or clerocratic governments, as long as you are wrong their approved way. Being wrong their way while they still try to get into power helps them. Once they are in power, or close to get there, they flood the zone with shit, defending their shit with “free speech”.

Free speech is a concept of the 18th century, trying to overcome aristo&clerocratic governments who rely on lies, indoctrination and conformism.

The most fragile, worth to defend speech is the inconvenient truth. The most common speech is insults, lies, fakes and porn.

@andrewstroehlein Me: after they threw me out for “insulting” Nazis.