Mate, humanity is not going to make it if we can’t learn to sympathize with and protect each other. I’m sorry your life is hard. It’s not a god damn contest.

What industry are you in, anyway? If you don’t mind me asking.

Okay, not sure how much this matters considering where the world is heading, but:

If they can’t get better working conditions because you’ll complain (it’s not fair, yadda yadda), how will you get better working conditions when they complain (it’s not fair, yadda yadda)?

I’m just saying, if you’re not willing to play ball, why should I care about your sick pay?

Medicaid is gonna burn up soon. Should I be concerned that you’ll be losing coverage, or are we just fully on board with this petty individualism?

That entertainment is labor. What are you talking about?

Haha! Ahh…

“You are a senior games engine developer, punished by the system. You’ve been to several board meetings where no decisions were made. Fix the issue now… or you go to jail. Please.”

Yeah, “democratize art” means “I’m jealous of the cash sloshing around out there.”

People say things like “I’m not as good as this guy on TikTok.” Why do you need to be? Literally, who asked?

This is creepy.

The tough guys and sigma males of yester-year used to say things like “If I were homeless, I would just bathe in the creek using the natural animal fats from the squirrel I caught for dinner as soap, win a new job by explaining my 21-days-in-7 workweek ethos, and buy a new home using my shares in my dad’s furniture warehouse as collateral against the loan. It’s not impossible to get back on your feet.”

But with the advent of AI, which, actually, is supposed to do things for you, it’s completely different now.

I also can’t rub two sticks together to heat my home.

Dude, that fucking sucks. What is wrong with you?

Anyone who puts a chatbot anywhere is definitely a failure, yeah.

it makes sense to prepare for when it is.

Pfft, okay.

The Zoom CEO, that is the video calling software, wanted to train AIs on your work emails and chat messages to create AI personalities you could send to the meetings you’re paid to sit through while you drink Corona on the beach and receive a “summary” later.

The Zoom CEO, that is the video calling software, seems like a pretty stupid guy?

Yeah. Yeah, he really does. Really… fuckin’… dumb.

Maybe you failed all your high school classes, but that ain’t got none to do with me.

I think it’d be nice if there was an OS-app version of the web browser middle-click. I never feel confused about whether an opened link is or is not taking focus because I shared my intent by which mouse button I used (left: open and switch, middle: just open).

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.

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.

Yes. I know you were.
So, is it that you do think a board of real human people is better, then?

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.”

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.

#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. Like a bad movie, it’s really easy to do.

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?

I’m implying it’s undesirable.

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.