My opinions carry no weight but I'm also a refusnik so it was extra nice to read your words. I won't even play with AI. And I wish those who use that horrible October 7 as justification for genocide would look a bit further back and check who is really acting in self defense. Thank you.
Mine also carries no weight at all and writing this is pointless in terms of stopping the rot, but I do think there are many like us who just don't want to take part if we can help it. Thank you for making me feel less lonely. And on the matter of Oct 7, yes. We are on the same page there too.
Firmly in the refusenik camp too! I can't use AI, it just feels wrong, in so many ways & there is nothing to be gained by doing so, as far as I can see. Loss is immediate and building anything takes time, patience and energy. All the things I love to HAVE at my disposal. If I don't, I feel I may be living an unbalanced life.
I also feel like I gain mothing, so it is not like I am giving something up. But many people feel their lives are somehow easier or better. I haven't felt that. I hope I can escape having to use it ever, but I am not convinced I will be able to. After all, I drive a car...that's hardly ethical once you think about it.
I'm so interested in what you've said here, and how it also circles back to war and the unutterable stupidity of those who think genocide can be justified. I could be called out on that comment but it seems to me that turn the other cheek (if there really was a blow struck) seems to me to be the most effective way to halt a war. Oy.... I know it's not that easy but sometimes that's all I can think to say. Who struck the first blow?? Definitely not the people of Gaza.
And looking at AI - I've scorned it for so long but I also see how insidious it is and how it takes the burden (of writing) of using our own decision making powers away from us. And the most intelligent of my friends use it and sing its praises. I have sung its praises when it helped me to summarize and make sense of a great deal of my own soul searching. But it still makes me uneasy. And AI generated images really frighten me. I'm grateful to be a skeptic and a fact checker and a hashtag reader, otherwise I would believe that a mantis which looks like a lotus has just been discovered in the Amazon. Or that dogs could be the size of cows. Or that tattoos on an 80 year old still look as beautiful as they did 60 years ago.
All that shared, thank you for your Love Letters and for being 100% human generated xxxx
'Insidious' is the word that best describes our relationship with it. There will, I suspect, come a time, when I won't be able to refuse it anymore because I won't have a choice. But I want to be dragged there kicking and screaming because I don't want to be a pushover right at the beginning already. And then, the suff you said about being able to use your knowledge and scepticism to navigate what comes at you: the thing I find terrifying is that with every year that passes, we are less and less able to do that. There are children (hell, there are adults!) in school right now who can't discern real from fake and, just as AI breeds and multuplies of its own volition, this ignorance is grows exponentially. And no one is trying to out the brakes on in any serious way!
AI is just software, made (mostly) by men. It reflects the attitudes and beliefs of men and men who run things, who make up the rules, who tell the rest of us what to do, what to think. But all things must pass, better still, we must hasten its passing.
Yes. That is the problem, isn't it? It's an extension of something with a narrow view of life, a single view of it. A view that thinks faster is always better, and money is better than the whole of earth and all that lives in it.
Yes, sorry, I did know that was what you meant. I was making a bad joke about how people say that AI will be the end of us humans. And yes, please gods and goddesses, let the desire for power and control abate for ten seconds so we can put the brakes on this. (Won’t happen though 😔)
My opinions carry no weight but I'm also a refusnik so it was extra nice to read your words. I won't even play with AI. And I wish those who use that horrible October 7 as justification for genocide would look a bit further back and check who is really acting in self defense. Thank you.
Mine also carries no weight at all and writing this is pointless in terms of stopping the rot, but I do think there are many like us who just don't want to take part if we can help it. Thank you for making me feel less lonely. And on the matter of Oct 7, yes. We are on the same page there too.
Thank you for giving words to my fears, revulsion and sense of gloom about this.
Firmly in the refusenik camp too! I can't use AI, it just feels wrong, in so many ways & there is nothing to be gained by doing so, as far as I can see. Loss is immediate and building anything takes time, patience and energy. All the things I love to HAVE at my disposal. If I don't, I feel I may be living an unbalanced life.
I also feel like I gain mothing, so it is not like I am giving something up. But many people feel their lives are somehow easier or better. I haven't felt that. I hope I can escape having to use it ever, but I am not convinced I will be able to. After all, I drive a car...that's hardly ethical once you think about it.
I’m with you here, Karin. On principle, I refuse to use it. And am shocked by how casually many people I know and love and respect, do.
I suspect they (the ones who use it and who love me) think I am being a bit of a drama queen. Which is why I mostly don't talk about it. It's so sad 😔
I'm so interested in what you've said here, and how it also circles back to war and the unutterable stupidity of those who think genocide can be justified. I could be called out on that comment but it seems to me that turn the other cheek (if there really was a blow struck) seems to me to be the most effective way to halt a war. Oy.... I know it's not that easy but sometimes that's all I can think to say. Who struck the first blow?? Definitely not the people of Gaza.
And looking at AI - I've scorned it for so long but I also see how insidious it is and how it takes the burden (of writing) of using our own decision making powers away from us. And the most intelligent of my friends use it and sing its praises. I have sung its praises when it helped me to summarize and make sense of a great deal of my own soul searching. But it still makes me uneasy. And AI generated images really frighten me. I'm grateful to be a skeptic and a fact checker and a hashtag reader, otherwise I would believe that a mantis which looks like a lotus has just been discovered in the Amazon. Or that dogs could be the size of cows. Or that tattoos on an 80 year old still look as beautiful as they did 60 years ago.
All that shared, thank you for your Love Letters and for being 100% human generated xxxx
'Insidious' is the word that best describes our relationship with it. There will, I suspect, come a time, when I won't be able to refuse it anymore because I won't have a choice. But I want to be dragged there kicking and screaming because I don't want to be a pushover right at the beginning already. And then, the suff you said about being able to use your knowledge and scepticism to navigate what comes at you: the thing I find terrifying is that with every year that passes, we are less and less able to do that. There are children (hell, there are adults!) in school right now who can't discern real from fake and, just as AI breeds and multuplies of its own volition, this ignorance is grows exponentially. And no one is trying to out the brakes on in any serious way!
AI is just software, made (mostly) by men. It reflects the attitudes and beliefs of men and men who run things, who make up the rules, who tell the rest of us what to do, what to think. But all things must pass, better still, we must hasten its passing.
Before it hastens ours?
Yes. That is the problem, isn't it? It's an extension of something with a narrow view of life, a single view of it. A view that thinks faster is always better, and money is better than the whole of earth and all that lives in it.
Well it's all about money and power, power is all about control and by hasten its passing, I mean ending AI's role in life.
Yes, sorry, I did know that was what you meant. I was making a bad joke about how people say that AI will be the end of us humans. And yes, please gods and goddesses, let the desire for power and control abate for ten seconds so we can put the brakes on this. (Won’t happen though 😔)
https://sharonski.substack.com/p/buddha-and-the-sun