| ▲ | sanction8 a day ago | ||||||||||||||||
a16z talking again? This is your regular reminder that 1) a16z is one the largest backers of LLMs 2) They named one of the two authors of the Fascist Manifesto their patron saint 3) AI systems are built to function in ways that degrade and are likely to destroy our crucial civic institutions. (Quoted from Professor Woodrow Hartzog "How AI Destroys Institutions"). Or to put it another way, being plausible but slightly wrong and un-auditable—at scale—is the killer feature of LLMs and this combination of properties makes it an essentially fascist technology meaning it is well suited to centralizing authority, eliminating checks on that authority and advancing an anti-science agenda (quoted from the A plausible, scalable and slightly wrong black box: why large language models are a fascist technology that cannot be redeemed post). | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | nylonstrung 21 hours ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
This wasn't a16z monolithically speaking as a firm, it was Anish Acharya talking on a podcast. Seems like he's focused on fintech and not involved in many of their LLM investments | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | arjie a day ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||
I will not claim to be an expert historian but one general belief I have is that nomenclature undergoes semantic migration over a century. So for the sake of conciseness I will quote the first demand of each portion of the Fascist Manifesto. This isn't to obscure, because it is in Wikipedia[0] and translated in English on EN Wikipedia[1], but so I can share a sample of whether this is something we can relate to our present day political orientation. Hopefully it will inform what you believe "author of the Fascist Manifesto" to imply: > ... > For this WE WANT: > On the political problem: > Universal suffrage by regional list voting, with proportional representation, voting and eligibility for women. > ... > On the social problem: > WE WANT: > The prompt enactment of a state law enshrining the legal eight-hour workday for all jobs. > ... > On the military issue: > WE WANT: > The establishment of a national militia with brief educational services and exclusively defensive duty. > ... > On the financial problem: > WE WANT: > A strong extraordinary tax on capital of a progressive nature, having the form of true PARTIAL EXPROPRIATION of all wealth. > ... 0: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programma_di_San_Sepolcro#Test... | |||||||||||||||||
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