What Is Not Said · focused reading
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Grace’s experience of loss, her limited leverage, and the conclusions she carefully leaves open—assembled as a navigable ontology.
Quoted post: For my part, seeing AI catch up to my abilities in several domains has been painful. I feel a sense of loss. And I’m in a position where I have (a tiny bit of) leverage and control over the process. I can only imagine how painful it would be if I felt like it were completely out of my hands.
WAFFLES DECLARATION — aka things this post doesn’t say: this feeling is insurmountable; this feeling is constant; this feeling trumps other feelings; I think AI can do everything I can do; AI isn’t exciting; my feelings should affect the pace of AI progress; all other people feel like this; this means that AI isn’t net good or beneficial for society; AI is net good or beneficial for society in spite of this.
Quoted-post URI: at://did:plc:p572wxnsuoogcrhlfrlizlrb/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6syl6pues2g
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What Is Not Said · focused reading
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SupportOne claim gives another its ground or force.
TensionTwo claims pull in different directions without cancelling each other.
QualificationA non-claim narrows what a declaration licenses us to conclude.
Support: 1 supports 1.1 and 1.2; 2 supports 2.1.
Tension: 2 and 2.1 hold limited agency against imagined powerlessness; 4.1 and 1.1 allow excitement and pain to coexist; 6 and 6.1 suspend opposite societal verdicts.
Qualification: 3, 3.1, and 3.2 narrow the scope of the stated pain and loss; 4 narrows “catch up”; 5 and 5.1 bound the personal feeling’s policy and social reach; 6 and 6.1 withhold societal conclusions from loss.