this post was submitted on 14 Sep 2023
53 points (88.4% liked)

No Stupid Questions

35893 readers
1315 users here now

No such thing. Ask away!

!nostupidquestions is a community dedicated to being helpful and answering each others' questions on various topics.

The rules for posting and commenting, besides the rules defined here for lemmy.world, are as follows:

Rules (interactive)


Rule 1- All posts must be legitimate questions. All post titles must include a question.

All posts must be legitimate questions, and all post titles must include a question. Questions that are joke or trolling questions, memes, song lyrics as title, etc. are not allowed here. See Rule 6 for all exceptions.



Rule 2- Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material.

Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material. You will be warned first, banned second.



Rule 3- Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here.

Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here. Breaking this rule will not get you or your post removed, but it will put you at risk, and possibly in danger.



Rule 4- No self promotion or upvote-farming of any kind.

That's it.



Rule 5- No baiting or sealioning or promoting an agenda.

Questions which, instead of being of an innocuous nature, are specifically intended (based on reports and in the opinion of our crack moderation team) to bait users into ideological wars on charged political topics will be removed and the authors warned - or banned - depending on severity.



Rule 6- Regarding META posts and joke questions.

Provided it is about the community itself, you may post non-question posts using the [META] tag on your post title.

On fridays, you are allowed to post meme and troll questions, on the condition that it's in text format only, and conforms with our other rules. These posts MUST include the [NSQ Friday] tag in their title.

If you post a serious question on friday and are looking only for legitimate answers, then please include the [Serious] tag on your post. Irrelevant replies will then be removed by moderators.



Rule 7- You can't intentionally annoy, mock, or harass other members.

If you intentionally annoy, mock, harass, or discriminate against any individual member, you will be removed.

Likewise, if you are a member, sympathiser or a resemblant of a movement that is known to largely hate, mock, discriminate against, and/or want to take lives of a group of people, and you were provably vocal about your hate, then you will be banned on sight.



Rule 8- All comments should try to stay relevant to their parent content.



Rule 9- Reposts from other platforms are not allowed.

Let everyone have their own content.



Rule 10- Majority of bots aren't allowed to participate here.



Credits

Our breathtaking icon was bestowed upon us by @Cevilia!

The greatest banner of all time: by @TheOneWithTheHair!

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

Totally not a an AI asking this question.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] WhoRoger@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We already have AI running all the shit. If you're looking for a job, AIs look through resumes, they can hire you and fire you and do everything else around it. AI determine if you can get a loan and with what interest rate.

I don't feel like we're better for it.

AI can design kickass cars and fusion reactors, but removing people from decisions about people doesn't seem like a great idea.

Besides, even if AI was actually better at it, the fact that it's not as fireable or held accountable like a human can (at least in theory) makes it an issue.

Basically I'm ok if AI gives suggestions, even at the top level, but there need to be people able to go "hol up, that's not something we actually want" if it declares something stupid.

I do think we'll need new forms of government and different kind of people to coexist with AI at those governments.

[–] VelvetStorm@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I agree mostly. It would be nice to have a government that can't be corrupted by greed and religion.

[–] Lith@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Basically I'm ok if AI gives suggestions, even at the top level, but there need to be people able to go "hol up, that's not something we actually want" if it declares something stupid.

We need to be careful with this approach. SciFi has been warning us about letting technology take over our critical thinking for over a century, and based on human nature, I think it's an inevitability to some degree. Once we normalize making decisions based on an AI's input, it will become harder and harder to question them. Regardless of the AI's "intent", critical thinking is something we'll need to continue to exercise, the same way we still go to the gym despite industrializing our hunting and gathering.

[–] WhoRoger@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

That's why I'm saying we need new forms of government and new kinds of people, someone willing and able to question everything. It's possible that eventually it will be moot as AI becomes too good at manipulation, but for the time being, we at least need people to read through AI-generated emails and articles before hitting send. And with more advanced features, people with enough expertise to critique the results AI is giving.