Brutkey

Jeremy Kahn
@trochee@dair-community.social

So I see two poles for how to respond to "Peak Gasoline" in SFF

[bear with me while I digress; coming back to LLMs in a sec]

and they're basically

doomer hoarding and xenophobia (everyone for himself, and f your feelings) — think MAD MAX

vs

Solarpunk invention of new ways of living that... just don't use gasoline (everyone's in this together, so we'd better have a community garden, build transit, and learn first aid) — think THE TERRAFORMERS (thanks @annaleen@wandering.shop !)

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Jeremy Kahn
@trochee@dair-community.social

So, back to LLMs, or rather, back to prepping for "Peak AI"

(It's coming, let me tell you.)

Those of us currently under attack/usurpation by the push towards AI, we can respond to this by prepping toward either pole

The doom-prepper approach is to, I dunno, start planning a consultancy on "unbefunging your company's poorly-thought-out dependency on chatgpt", or building tools to poison (or detect poisoning) for the LLMs

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Jeremy Kahn
@trochee@dair-community.social

But what is the solarpunk approach to "Peak AI"?

Solarpunk offers a vision, in the face of gasoline, for planning community gardens, mutual aid societies, bike repair workshops, etc, even as the gasoline culture around us creaks and groans its way bloodily towards a reckoning

What is our (data science, machine learning, UX, design) equivalent of solarpunk for the concepts of automation?

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Jeremy Kahn
@trochee@dair-community.social

What is our (data science, machine learning, UX, design) equivalent of solarpunk?

Can we even imagine a world of automation without the exploitation, fantasies of infinite growth, and the increasingly unsubtle justifications for "laundering toil away"?

What are compelling visions of the future of automation that _aren't_ burying the exploitation behind an app or within a billion-parameter model?

6/fin (I think)