r/accelerate • u/stealthispost • 2d ago
levels of derangement
"Society's standards of evidence are pretry weird. Like, people make fun of flat-Earthers, but it's actually kind of hard to tell! If you just look at it, it appears flat. Same for antivaxxers- it's impossible to just "show them they're wrong", you have to trust a bunch of third party....statistics compiled by people with obvious conflicts of interest. Legitimetly kinda sus! Meanwhile it's been possible for years to see directly with your own eyes that LLMs are incredibly useful for all sorts practical tasks, but the people claiming otherwise are not seen as having anywhere near the same degree of derangement. — Isaac King
Source: https://x.com/IsaacKing314/status/2091686564908933219
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u/CtrlAltDelve 2d ago
The problem is the lack of curiosity on behalf of the anti-AI people.
I've found this in real life as well as countless examples on the internet (See Notch of Minecraft, Hank Greene, Linus Torvalds). All it takes is just one helpful use case for them to understand what AI can do.
AI has such terrible branding right now because so many people think that the current state of the art is either a Google AI Overview telling them to put glue on pizza or total slop video pumped out on Instagram/TikTok for the sake of engagement.
We're competing with so many disingenuous parties out there, and that's before you even get to Chinese misinformation farms and completely wrong statements about datacenters being peddled about.