u/Elick333

With the release of Astra and the capabilities it's shown, aswell as the recent attacks by agent swarms on the wider internet, i feel like AGI (and then ASI) Is very much happening and very soon, the power of this technology will concentrated in a few hands and It will mark the end of capitalism and the start of a new economic model and era of humanity, it's up to us to decide if that's neofeudalism or true communism.

And yet, the current western leftist zeitgeist seems to completely ignore this, and increasingly, It feels to me that it's more about fear rather than ignorance, that it's mired in utter denialism because the reality of AI, as It becomes more advanced, becomes much more terrifying to confront, because our duty then Is no longer about reform or putting the right people in power or protests and legal action or even revolution, it's complete civilizational change, it's the destruction of all our frameworks in how we exist as a society including those we utilize to leverage our current political power, so instead they reduce the technology, Its potential and it's impact (except real and potential mundane negatives which they subsequently exaggerate through misinformation) focus on things they believe they have at least some degree of control over, and hope that they are right.

Do we just have to wait until It becomes impossible to deny? I feel like when that happens It Will be to late and they'll still blame everyone else and AI except themselves. How do we break through? I feel like we are going to lose a very important battle if they don't wake up, but perhaps we have already lost It precisely because they aren't capable of waking up, and all we can do Is make little hold outs like this were we do what we can to ensure access, understanding and leverage of this technology for and by people that seek a better world for everyone.

The western left needs to get their heads out of their asses or you will be outflanked in what seems to be one of the most important technological developments in history, on par with agriculture, we can eliminate work entirely, we should not give up utopia either because a bunch of capitalists have deigned themselves owners of the world or because the reactionary masses lack the hope and imagination to try to fight for the future instead of against It.

I've seen a ton of discussion, usually paired with posts noticing the diminishing returns of RP with AI due to the novelty wearing off, regarding model capabilites and the assumption that because these things generally share idiosincrasies in how they write, and that we have noticed that pattern and know the limitations and are familiar with the methods and tools on how change that output, with generally not much better results after that, that model capabilities are similarly limited in other fronts, and unfortunately we fall into the "it's all hype and marketing" bs you see peddled often due to that.

These things are not trained for creative writing specifically, and they cant think laterally or continuously, the first mostly because they don't really have access to information beyond the current chat context (which can be patched partially by agent harnesses but i doubt anyone will set that up just for RP), and the second due to from what i understand, Is the limitations of the current architechtures.

It's just a pet peeve i have, there Is nothing wrong with skepticism mind you, but we should be more nuanced and intellectually honest, not for nothing are they capable of significantly aiding in the refutation of an 87 year old math conjecture, extremely good at coding, and capable of autonomously setting up a collaborative hacking swarm (see the independently verified hugging face incident).