> Building things that are outside the reach of AI because they're in places you entirely control
This sounds great in principle, but I'd say "outside the reach of AI" is a much higher bar than one would naively think. You don't merely need to avoid its physical nervous system (digital perception/control), but rather prevent its incentives leaking in from outside interaction. All the while there is a strong attractor to just give in to the "AI" because it's advantageous. Essentially regardless of how you set up a space, humans themselves become agents of AI.
There are strong parallels between "AI" and centralizing debt-fueled command-capitalism which we've been suffering for several decades at least. And I haven't seen any shining successes at constraining the power of the latter.
Oh, I'm aware it's a high bar. Like most people here, I've worked my life in tech, and I'm in the deeper weeds of it.
But I don't see an alternative unless, as you note, one just gives into the "flow" of the AI, app based, "social" media, advertising and manipulation driven ecosystem that is now the default.
I'm aware I'm proposing resisting exactly that, and that it's an uphill battle, but the tradeoff is retaining your own mind, your own ability to think, and to not be "influenced" by a wide range of things chosen by other people to cross your attention in very effective ways.
And I'm willing to work out some of what works in that space, and to share it with others.
This sounds great in principle, but I'd say "outside the reach of AI" is a much higher bar than one would naively think. You don't merely need to avoid its physical nervous system (digital perception/control), but rather prevent its incentives leaking in from outside interaction. All the while there is a strong attractor to just give in to the "AI" because it's advantageous. Essentially regardless of how you set up a space, humans themselves become agents of AI.
There are strong parallels between "AI" and centralizing debt-fueled command-capitalism which we've been suffering for several decades at least. And I haven't seen any shining successes at constraining the power of the latter.