The grid is always missing its 4th and most interesting quadrant: the "unknown knowns"; what Zizek calls the contents of ideology; or how Chomsky might regard UG. The unknowns that prescribe our capacity to know.
As to "any sufficiently abc is xyz": this tired tautology must be retired as hyperbolic jargon. Lead any writeup with it at penalty of being ignored.
Prefer the observations that gen-AI can retrieve, in a manner that looks remarkably lifelike.
Use gen-AI to assist composition, under the expectation that it will retrieve code with surprisingly high context sensitivity.
Never expect gen-AI to generally reason. It can't do it.
In pursuit of vast monetary incentives, the designers of gen-AI have overwhelming reasons to align gen-AI to fake reasoning. One very easy way to do this is to make agents appear agreeable. A more pernicious way is observe edge-cases, and mechanically turk additional context sensitivity for those cases (RLHF).
If AGI is anywhere on the horizon this will be surprising given that there is so little understanding of the nature of intelligence. Nevermind the ethical concerns surrounding any pursuit of sentient AI.
Incredibly cancerous technology that is obliterating privacy and eclipsing local control of devices.
Following the lead of Microsoft PC, the device is a trojan horse for unstated, unregulated interests of the app.
The half-life of enshittification of any commons based on this technology should be expected to be an order of magnitude shorter than it was for the web, and malicious application causing an order of magnitude greater damage.
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Trekkies have already foretold the hazard (withstanding the already totalitarian dimensions of the premise of Star Trek's Federation):
ep. 106 "The Game" -> social-media pleasure/pain pathos and distortion and exploitation of human relationships.
ep. 25 "Conspiracy" -> parasitic infection of command & control structures that pollute autonomy.
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We're on the cusp of becoming enslaved by the organizations designing this tech.
If that sounds hyperbolic, merely notice that the entire computing industry has pivoted away from the personal towards the corporate under conditions of war, usurping production and deployment of this technology at a planetary scale, within a time-frame of a decade for AI versus a century for pre-AI computing.
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