I’m wondering…about AI — mostly about where meaning and morality fits in (or doesn’t).
Just because LLM’s can make new connections to an unfathomable degree and at an unprecedented rate doesn’t mean that they're real (or substantive). None of this happens without a rate of an investment that we’ve never seen before. Investment is predicated on the possibility of return. Perhaps we need to evaluate more carefully what that return actually is — we are, after all, funding this through our societal choices.
Too often, we throw up our hands on such things and say, in effect, “but what can we do about it?” Well, other societies aren’t caving in as easily. They are doing something about it, by getting at the values they have as a group. So, why aren’t we?
Just because you can make money at something, doesn't mean you should. Sometimes I wonder how much our love of money has stunted our growth and development as a society (no to mention as individuals).
Many of our leaders have just caved in to our appetite for consumption, regardless of the implications. Given the amount of money involved now, is AI just one more example?
