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- Comment on AI Could Be the Most Effective Tool for Dismantling Democracy Ever Invented 19 hours 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.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
God, it really doesn’t take much to bring out the spite and resentment from people, does it?
And yes, I’m talking about you, Captain.
- Comment on Surprise! People don't want AI deciding who gets a kidney transplant and who dies or endures years of misery 2 days ago:
I don’t know if you know this, but there are a limited number of kidneys to transplant. I honestly don’t know what else to say.
- Comment on Surprise! People don't want AI deciding who gets a kidney transplant and who dies or endures years of misery 5 days ago:
Yes. I know you were.
So, is it that you do think a board of real human people is better, then? - Comment on AI Could Be the Most Effective Tool for Dismantling Democracy Ever Invented 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.”
- Comment on AI Could Be the Most Effective Tool for Dismantling Democracy Ever Invented 2 weeks ago:
People hide their AI usage to avoid hate -> making less people aware of the depths of what it can be used for,
This does not follow. People who despise AI still talk about what it’s capable of. In fact, they probably talk about it more.
Actually, hate and anger spread throughout a population far more easily than genuine interest and novelty. I would think our distaste for it would actually be very helpful for propagating information about it.
you should also know why it’s a good tool for misinformation.
Okay, you’re right that it doesn’t suck in that specific way. But spiritually, it sucks very much.
You’re not really talking about counter-propaganda, though, you’re just talking about people… giving up the fight about it? Because it’s annoying to some game devs? When does the action come?
Keep in mind, any counter-propaganda strategy must involve its (AI’s) eventual dismantling or full, legal banishment because a democracy cannot survive a technology that wears people’s skin and drowns out other voices like this. Democracy cannot survive a Dead Internet.
But really, these technologies have little to no bearing on the debate around AI,
They do in the sense that all of them are driven by neophilia and big tent people horny for cash and power. Bitcoin would have been a paradigm shift had it been adopted by society, but it would have been a worse society. Because Bitcoin sucks.
- Comment on AI Could Be the Most Effective Tool for Dismantling Democracy Ever Invented 2 weeks ago:
#1 doesn’t have anything to do with liking it, though, that’s just… knowing what it is. I know what it is, and I dislike it; it’s really easy.
It will make it easier for them to claw AI technology for themselves
Okay, but why do we want it? What does it do for us? So what if only corporations have it: it sucks.
Do you remember bitcoin and NFTs? Those didn’t pan out very well. They were solutions looking for problems. What is it about AI that I should be excited about?
- Comment on AI Could Be the Most Effective Tool for Dismantling Democracy Ever Invented 2 weeks ago:
I’m implying it’s undesirable.
- Comment on AI Could Be the Most Effective Tool for Dismantling Democracy Ever Invented 2 weeks ago:
some tools are force multipliers in that action, and thus useful in that case.
Sure. And removing those force multipliers from play can affect the state of the game.
When we get enough hammer murders, then we can talk about restricting hammer use.
- Comment on AI Could Be the Most Effective Tool for Dismantling Democracy Ever Invented 2 weeks ago:
How… does… AI… solve the problems of corporate AI? What is the strategy?
- Comment on AI Could Be the Most Effective Tool for Dismantling Democracy Ever Invented 2 weeks ago:
And some tools are bad to use. People generally don’t like death.
- Comment on AI Could Be the Most Effective Tool for Dismantling Democracy Ever Invented 2 weeks ago:
Weapons are tools. They are tools engineered for death.
- Comment on AI Could Be the Most Effective Tool for Dismantling Democracy Ever Invented 2 weeks ago:
No, a hammer is useful.
- Comment on AI Could Be the Most Effective Tool for Dismantling Democracy Ever Invented 2 weeks ago:
An ethical, open-source alternative is going to usurp google gemini? What are you talking about?
- Comment on How I view others in social media 2 weeks ago:
I listen to him~ but only through the little speaker I’ve hidden in his wallet
- Comment on ‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment. 4 weeks ago:
Jarvis, explain to this man the concepts of “scale” and “size.”
Jarvis, rotate this man’s eyes ninety degrees clockwise. - Comment on ‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment. 4 weeks ago:
That’s great. We can schedule it like heroin for professional use only, then.
- Comment on ‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment. 4 weeks ago:
Yes. Fuck the owners and fuck their machine guns.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I would draw a distinct line between the critical thinking of engineering and the critical thinking of the humanities, but yes. Just in the sense that engineering alone is good, but definitely not sufficient.
There is a common archetype of person in stem who thinks that because they’re very good at programming that they’re also very good at everything, and so spends half of their college tenure in a fratboy flophouse reinventing basic philosophy ideas Isaac Asimov thought of 70 years ago as part of their mission to solve society’s problems with bitcoin.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
That is fantastic. I’m glad you like them.
The difference here, presumably, is that you’ve thought about what you eat and continue to do so knowing full well what that means, whatever it means. But~ not everybody thinks about it. Some people are carried forward through life just by the sheer momentum of their childhood.
And I say some people, but really, everybody is in some way or another. It takes active effort to change your course in life.
For example, no idea what your diet is like: if you eat a lot of junk food, do you know how much sugar you’re consuming? Have you ever thought about whether that’s a good thing?
- Comment on Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI | TechCrunch 4 weeks ago:
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that 20% to 30% of code inside the company’s repositories was “written by software” — meaning AI.
Nadella gave the figure after Zuckerberg asked roughly how much of Microsoft’s code is AI generated today.
I highlighted part of the article for you.
- Comment on Yep 5 weeks ago:
There is if you know where to look, but yeah, I feel you. I want to wear long flowy coats and such, but they’re all cut at the goddamn hip.
- Comment on Yep 5 weeks ago:
and I’ve finally figured out style
Heeelllll yeah \m/
- Comment on The Oscars officially don’t care if films use AI 1 month ago:
I’m 100% positive that this comment will get downvoted heavily
Don’t worry, buddy, I’ll get you started. 🫡
- Comment on Note: before tariffs 1 month ago:
Here is a nice little inflation chart I’ve assembled:
You people are upset about (analogy) gas being 12.98 a gallon when you should be upset that you don’t make enough to afford gas at 12.98 a gallon. You should male enough to afford a $450 switch 2, and the fact that you don’t is because your masters have been stealing from you for 30+ years. Or since forever, if you’re as woke as me.
NES 1985 $179 -> 2025 $528 Games $49.99 -> $147
SNES 1991 $199 -> 2025 $464 Games $49.99 -> $116 SM All-Stars $59.99 -> $140
N64 1996 $199 -> 2025 $403 Games $59.99 -> 121
GameCube 2001 $199 -> 2025 $355 Games $49.99 -> $89
Gameboy 1989 $89.99 -> 2025 $230 Games $29.99 -> $76
Gameboy Advance 2001 $99.99 -> 2025 $178 Games $34.99 -> $62
Nintendo DS 2004 $149.99 -> 2025 $251 Games $29.99 -> $50
Playstation 1 1995 $299 -> 2025 $622 Games $49.99 -> $104
Playstation 2 2000 $299 -> 2025 $552 Games $49.99 -> $92
X-Box 2001 $299 -> 2025 $535 Games $49.99 -> $89
Sega Genesis 1989 $189 -> 2025 $483 Games $59.99 -> $153
Sega Dreamcast 1999 $199 -> 2025 $380 Games $49.99 -> $95
- Comment on Note: before tariffs 1 month ago:
Game consoles are sold at a loss. You are supposed to buy more games than the console costs.
- Comment on ghibli posting 2 months ago:
You know that thing our colelctive parents do when they want to win an argument so they just start attacking you for random things you did 6 years ago? That’s exactly what this person is doing.
- Comment on Horses ARE Forever 2 months ago:
Uh. I’m gonna guess no. Is there an anime lady with robots?
- Comment on Horses ARE Forever 2 months ago:
God, this image is cool. Very NaissancE, if you’ve ever played that.
- Comment on Surprise! People don't want AI deciding who gets a kidney transplant and who dies or endures years of misery 2 months ago:
Human beings have a soul you can appeal to?
Not every single one, but enough.