Comment on AI Could Be the Most Effective Tool for Dismantling Democracy Ever Invented

• petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Okay? So does it meaningfully help to restrict hammer use or doesn’t it? I’m the one asking the question, you’re just kind of handwaving it away, as if restricting hammers would be “ridiculous.”

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  • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Sorry I guess there is a bit of a casm of understanding between us here. Yeah restricting hammers, heavy hard objects on a pole found crafted throughout human civilization, does sound neigh impossible to me.

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    • petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      There’s a lot you can do, actually. You can put people in jail, for one. Possession in non-designated areas, such as a construction site or a personal residence, could lead to confiscation and a misdemeanor. It can just be socially impolite to have one around people—you know, like your car keys are after you’ve been drinking.

      The chasm of understanding is that you don’t want to do anything—literally anything—about abuse in your society.

      And for what? So that chatgpt can give you advice on what to order next from your burrito taxi? So that you don’t have to go through the pain of writing a long email to your boss that he’s going to summarize with the same AI service anyway?

      I don’t think being able to generate funny looking pictures is worth letting Palantir, another pet project of the vampire Peter Thiel, create a nightmare social-credit system actually worthy of 1984 to deter union advocacy, palastinian-genocide protest, being remotely anti-Trump—anything found disagreeable to the state—from ever realistically happening again. In all countries, mind you.

      We can’t do anything about that?

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      You know what else we can’t do anything about? Global Warming. When the water wars finally kill us, I suppose I’ll come greet you in hell.

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      • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        You seem to think we disagree on creation of a police state or massive surveillance system being a bad thing for some reason. None of which are stopped with regulations by the states that are funding and building said things …

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