"If like the author of this issue you were designated as gifted when you were in school in the 1980s and 90s, there’s a high likelihood that you’re neurodivergent in some manner." mind blown...
I support Large Language Models in anthropology, especially to study the biases built into the English, French and other Western European colonial languages and cultures.
I don’t support their use in most other ways that this culture wishes to use it.
I don't believe there is an honest desire to detect biases, but to automate them.
Under British North America settler-colonialism (consolidated into USA and Canada), I don’t feel like there is a large difference between left-or-right wing when it comes to these biases except for honesty. The “left” is polite as they perform individually "I am one of the good ones" while upholding (and accepting as part of their identity) biased systems. The “Right” is open and honest with their disdain for anything or anyone claimed as an "other".
I have observed the same phenomena when discussing any attribute of humans that isn't what has been arbitrarily placed on the top of social hierarchies: cis-normativity, heteronormativity, white supremacy (racism), androcentrism, anthropocentrism, Christian/Abrahamic supremacy, etc, etc.
I see automation of biases as something that would align with the Western Left. An individual would be able to claim "I am one of the good ones", as well as falsely claim it was unbiased technology that made the biased decision.
There seems to be so much anger at Trump and supporters for what amounts to saying the quiet part out loud. A focus on individuals "being rude".
Is there any actual political movement against the underlying policies (systems, institutions, laws, etc) -- or only a movement against a few specific individuals?
I'm also an AI skeptic, which is why I'm passively arguing in this issue for a new governance model that reflects the perspective you're articulating. I also fundamentally believe bias is a good thing, something I've argued previously (and will again). But to your key question, is there a movement against the underlying policies? No. And I think the reason there isn't, is partly a consequence of ignoring and marginalizing neurodivergent perspectives.
Can you point to where you have written about "bias is a good thing"?
That way I can try to understand the argument, including how you may be using those words in the specific caae. I have learned over my lifetime that different people can use the identical language to mean totally different things.
Example: "gender ideology". To me that refers to the largely religious belief that gender and gender roles are binary and biologically determined..
Other people talking about the "gender ideology" mean the opposite.
Agreed, language is a virus and evolves faster than we realize, diverging in ways that reflect our politics and culture. This is the post, although it is brief, as I realize this is something I've spoken more about than have written. I'll do a Metaviews issue on the subject in the near term future to further flesh out my thoughts.
Some of my reading on Autism suggests that some of the extra processing time we take relates to a reduced amount of the social shortcuts (biases).
Social programming can create biases, but for adherents to Individualism (itself promoted through social programming) this programming becomes hard to observe.
LLMs are a great tool to explore that social programming, but unless Western society deprogrammes itself I can't see this happening.
If self-identified "progressives" (some claim "woke" as they sleepwalk through life) can't even rationally talk about social programming around social hierarchies as obvious as race and racism, how can they possibly help in removing those hierarchies?
I have lost long-time friends due to White fragility. Is this society remotely ready for AI?
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Adding what I wrote as a comment to medium.
I have recently been writing about the programming to counteract programming (whether social programming, or "AI") as anti-virus.
"If like the author of this issue you were designated as gifted when you were in school in the 1980s and 90s, there’s a high likelihood that you’re neurodivergent in some manner." mind blown...
I'm Autistic (received an official assessment last summer, after burnout https://r.flora.ca/p/my-autism-burnout-story ).
I'm an AI skeptic.
I support Large Language Models in anthropology, especially to study the biases built into the English, French and other Western European colonial languages and cultures.
I don’t support their use in most other ways that this culture wishes to use it.
I don't believe there is an honest desire to detect biases, but to automate them.
Under British North America settler-colonialism (consolidated into USA and Canada), I don’t feel like there is a large difference between left-or-right wing when it comes to these biases except for honesty. The “left” is polite as they perform individually "I am one of the good ones" while upholding (and accepting as part of their identity) biased systems. The “Right” is open and honest with their disdain for anything or anyone claimed as an "other".
I have written about noticing "White Fragility" https://r.flora.ca/p/observing-white-fagility , and that includes noticing the behaviour in fellow Autistic people.
I have observed the same phenomena when discussing any attribute of humans that isn't what has been arbitrarily placed on the top of social hierarchies: cis-normativity, heteronormativity, white supremacy (racism), androcentrism, anthropocentrism, Christian/Abrahamic supremacy, etc, etc.
I see automation of biases as something that would align with the Western Left. An individual would be able to claim "I am one of the good ones", as well as falsely claim it was unbiased technology that made the biased decision.
There seems to be so much anger at Trump and supporters for what amounts to saying the quiet part out loud. A focus on individuals "being rude".
Is there any actual political movement against the underlying policies (systems, institutions, laws, etc) -- or only a movement against a few specific individuals?
I'm also an AI skeptic, which is why I'm passively arguing in this issue for a new governance model that reflects the perspective you're articulating. I also fundamentally believe bias is a good thing, something I've argued previously (and will again). But to your key question, is there a movement against the underlying policies? No. And I think the reason there isn't, is partly a consequence of ignoring and marginalizing neurodivergent perspectives.
Can you point to where you have written about "bias is a good thing"?
That way I can try to understand the argument, including how you may be using those words in the specific caae. I have learned over my lifetime that different people can use the identical language to mean totally different things.
Example: "gender ideology". To me that refers to the largely religious belief that gender and gender roles are binary and biologically determined..
Other people talking about the "gender ideology" mean the opposite.
Agreed, language is a virus and evolves faster than we realize, diverging in ways that reflect our politics and culture. This is the post, although it is brief, as I realize this is something I've spoken more about than have written. I'll do a Metaviews issue on the subject in the near term future to further flesh out my thoughts.
https://medium.com/eco-punks/the-essence-of-bias-in-intelligence-9e79a58397d1
Some of my reading on Autism suggests that some of the extra processing time we take relates to a reduced amount of the social shortcuts (biases).
Social programming can create biases, but for adherents to Individualism (itself promoted through social programming) this programming becomes hard to observe.
LLMs are a great tool to explore that social programming, but unless Western society deprogrammes itself I can't see this happening.
If self-identified "progressives" (some claim "woke" as they sleepwalk through life) can't even rationally talk about social programming around social hierarchies as obvious as race and racism, how can they possibly help in removing those hierarchies?
I have lost long-time friends due to White fragility. Is this society remotely ready for AI?
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Adding what I wrote as a comment to medium.
I have recently been writing about the programming to counteract programming (whether social programming, or "AI") as anti-virus.
https://r.flora.ca/p/nice-canadian-racism
"What I am, my phenotype including my lack of melanin in my skin, is hardware. Biology is hardware.
Isms, like Capitalism, Socialism, Colonialism, Racism, Androcentrism, Anthropocentrism are software.
I personally categorize some of these systems as malware, and societies with these systems are in need of anti-virus and other anti-malware work."