Comment on "Yeah, but what if we used AI?"

• aidan@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Can you name a functional civilization without oppressing some minority populations? Does that mean oppressing minority populations is good or necessary?

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  • TSG_Asmodeus@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Can you name a functional civilization without oppressing some minority populations?

    Got it, we won’t do civilization anymore.

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    • PiratePanPan@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      RETURN TO MONKE! YAY!

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    • blusterydayve26@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Where change is going, there won’t be civilization.

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    • aidan@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s not what I said

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Can you name a functional civilization without oppressing some minority populations?

    Yes. Iceland.

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    • aidan@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      After they enriched themselves by pillaging the work of others. Also let’s not forget the widespread (almost 100%) abortion of those diagnosed with down syndrome pre-birth. So when you prevent the disadvantaged from even being born its pretty easy to not oppress them. Furthermore, Iceland like the rest of Europe, does have a bit of bullying of Polish(and other) migrants- but I have no clue how wide spread it is.

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      • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        What others do you think they pillaged on Iceland?

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• qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  FOSS has no taxes, people support the projects they like on their own volition, this ensures that the money goes to where it’s supposed to instead of bombing foreign countries or oppressing local communities. I see no reason why this system couldn’t scale.

  I never said that there should be no taxes, but I’m also not going to pretend that there isn’t a degree of duress, coercion, extoextortion, non-consent which I consider fundamentally evil, perhaps a necessary one but evil nonetheless and I think it should be minimised.

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    FOSS is not a civilization. How did you read ‘civilization’ and get ‘software’ out of it? Do you think I was talking about the game?

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    • qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I thought that was a rhetorical question so I answered to what I thought was the spirit of it: An example of a functional system voluntarily supported by the community.

      To answare your unrhetorical question: No. I can’t think of a tax free civilization, but if I asked you 150 years ago to give me an example of a functional civilization where men and women had equal rights and people weren’t discriminated against based on their race or sexual orientation or of functional space faring civilization you probably couldn’t give me an example either. Just because something hasn’t happened yet, doesn’t mean it can’t or that we shouldn’t try to make it.

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      • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The problem is supporting the projects you like is a bit different when it’s something like… Building a bridge vs adding some code to a git repo lol

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  • Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    FOSS

    Can you eat it?

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