Information Is Physical or It's Nothing

📺️ There Is No AI, Really (It’s Just People), with Jaron Lanier Part of the ideology that makes AI into a creature instead of a collaboration also wants to think of bits as being this ethereal thing that’s free and infinite… You show me a bit that didn’t involve work. You show me a bit that didn’t disperse heat…Look at data centers. When you make enough bits, they take up more energy than anything. Information is physical or it’s nothing. You can think of large language model AI as a whole bunch of people’s work combined into this single document. But why do people want it to be a creature? You’re a young man. You think you’re the center of the universe. Of course you think you’re making God. Jaron is one of the most consistent, smart, sane voices in tech and the tech+society space. There’s not only cybernetics, AI, and VR in this interview, but a short discussion around hopepunk that never uses that word (around 40:00-45:00). Promises Made, Promises Kept: The Lincoln Memorial…