i expect the rise of ai will result in massive job loss, increased economic inequality, more big tech surveillance and control - all of which leads to societal conflict
on the bright side, open sourc...
> i expect the rise of ai will result in massive job loss
Mh, personally, I'm not really convinced: the bulk of the current layoffs are due to the general economic crisis and automation where ML has little to do with it. It's a factor, but the majority is just plain automation that was possible decades ago but was never really implemented due to IT ignorance. Put simply, bank staff are being laid off because we use internet banking and there's hardly any cash or cheques etc. left, so having a physical place called a "bank" scattered across the country no longer makes sense.
Then of course, translators are losing their jobs because an LLM can do the work of 10 of them, with only one remaining to act as a proofreader, but let's just say I don't see it quite the way it's often portrayed today.
As it stands, I don't think LLMs are much more than a Stochastic Parrot essentially the implementation of Conrad Gessner's dream of a universal library, where books are shredded and you can find only the snippets of information you want within the mass. We're starting to see automation in this area, but with what's available today, it doesn't go much further than that.
> increased economic inequality, more big tech surveillance and control
That's very obvious and LLM will help because of
- https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/19/1116779/ai-can-do-a-better-job-of-persuading-people-than-we-do/
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.09662
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-61345-5
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.04047
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13919
> all of which leads to societal conflict
Very yes but just the social fracture between those who live in the present vs those who are stuck in the past suffice, economic crisis to impoverish the most will do the rest.
> open source ai tech will empower those of us who demand freedom while chaos provides opportunity if we recognize it early and seize it
As it stands, we are in an extremely fragile situation; while it is technically very accessible today to set up a personal home server and ditch every other service besides the internet connection, it is also becoming increasingly expensive due to high hardware costs. It is also quite unapproachable because the bulk of recent FLOSS projects lack a systemic vision. Nostr itself could potentially do a great deal, but buggy clients, numerous semi-abandoned relay implementations, and the lack of a "single self-hosted application that does everything" vision, an Emacs model for the network, well... Cut out a huge portion of the potential audience...
Fundamentally, I quite agree that we ought to ENFORCE FLOSS and open hardware, but what I see is that most people are becoming less and less capable of being autonomous, and society is doing everything it can to enslave them, with massive success compared to the past.
> push forward, never stop
Always.
Mh, personally, I'm not really convinced: the bulk of the current layoffs are due to the general economic crisis and automation where ML has little to do with it. It's a factor, but the majority is just plain automation that was possible decades ago but was never really implemented due to IT ignorance. Put simply, bank staff are being laid off because we use internet banking and there's hardly any cash or cheques etc. left, so having a physical place called a "bank" scattered across the country no longer makes sense.
Then of course, translators are losing their jobs because an LLM can do the work of 10 of them, with only one remaining to act as a proofreader, but let's just say I don't see it quite the way it's often portrayed today.
As it stands, I don't think LLMs are much more than a Stochastic Parrot essentially the implementation of Conrad Gessner's dream of a universal library, where books are shredded and you can find only the snippets of information you want within the mass. We're starting to see automation in this area, but with what's available today, it doesn't go much further than that.
> increased economic inequality, more big tech surveillance and control
That's very obvious and LLM will help because of
- https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/19/1116779/ai-can-do-a-better-job-of-persuading-people-than-we-do/
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.09662
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-61345-5
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.04047
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13919
> all of which leads to societal conflict
Very yes but just the social fracture between those who live in the present vs those who are stuck in the past suffice, economic crisis to impoverish the most will do the rest.
> open source ai tech will empower those of us who demand freedom while chaos provides opportunity if we recognize it early and seize it
As it stands, we are in an extremely fragile situation; while it is technically very accessible today to set up a personal home server and ditch every other service besides the internet connection, it is also becoming increasingly expensive due to high hardware costs. It is also quite unapproachable because the bulk of recent FLOSS projects lack a systemic vision. Nostr itself could potentially do a great deal, but buggy clients, numerous semi-abandoned relay implementations, and the lack of a "single self-hosted application that does everything" vision, an Emacs model for the network, well... Cut out a huge portion of the potential audience...
Fundamentally, I quite agree that we ought to ENFORCE FLOSS and open hardware, but what I see is that most people are becoming less and less capable of being autonomous, and society is doing everything it can to enslave them, with massive success compared to the past.
> push forward, never stop
Always.
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