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In all ways imaginable, especially emotional. I’ve seen some sad shit in my life, but this overall bend toward mindless self-annihilation our species seems to have is by far the saddest…

Oh, I said nothing about honour! There’s being nice, and there’s being fair. I’m more for being fair than being nice, and as I see it, it’s fair to hit back. The difference is in the nuance of how I hit back. Why eliminate when immobilise would suffice, y’know?

Yeah, this person’s right! We should start making inflammatory AI videos, too! Dump that whole tanker ship in the fire, fuck it!

No. I am sorry, but no. The hate on Lemmy is not against AI as a technology, it is against how it is being used, how it is being peddled, how it is being shoved down everyone’s throats, and how much damage it’s doing to our environment (edit: and society, and art, and culture, and politics, and economy, and wellness, and overall desire to maintain a steady heartbeat!)

And, to your point about feelings not mattering, from what I’ve seen, most people (including myself) are exhausted! We are surrounded by people losing their shit left and right, bigotry, racism, hate in general are mainstream, Fascism is out, about, and in power, and it looks like we’re all forgetting that the planet is literally burning up again.

We are tired. Most of us have already been through enough shit as it is, we would want nothing more than to see the end of this string of “once in a lifetime” disasters, yet we understand that the easy way out means we’ll end up becoming exactly what’s ruining our lives right now. This isn’t just about winning, HOW we win is equally important, if not more so. Because that will set the tone for what would follow.

This is how AI will take over… not through wars or competence, but by being better at bureaucratic forgeries…

Edit: well, I guess the apple never falls far from the tree, as it were! Wa-hey! We wanted to create the ultimate worker, but we’ve managed to create the ultimate politician instead=))

Well, there are always ready-to-go solutions. A 1TB external drive isn’t all that expensive nowadays, and they’re enough for daily use!

Plus, honestly… there are soo many tutorials online about how to set up everything, and most things are a couple of commands one has to copy/paste into a command prompt. The anxiety is far worse than the procedure itself.

Maybe what’s needed is propagating these tutorials more, make them visible and highlight their accessibility in terms of procedural difficulty!

This! Invest in local storage as much as possible, ideally create your own proper storage server! Given how fragmented and volatile things are becoming, this isn’t even just about access anymore, it’s about archival as well.

Thing is, technology just… is, neither bad nor good. The principles behind every single technological breakthrough have always existed, we just figure out how they work.

Like a knife, science is a tool. The ones who misuse the tool (i.e. us) are to blame for the damage done, not the tool itself.

Sorry to be THAT guy, but… Well, Technically™, this idea has been analysed for, I dare say, centuries at this point.

Edit: and in many (not all, but very, very many) scenarios, it ends up being a profoundly shitty idea.

Not against actual medical use, but unless absolutely needed, it should be a “fuck no.” Imho.

Edit 2/unprompted musings: I think we, as a species, are simply too immature for such technologies. We’re still at the “age” where the first thing we’ll do with it would be to figure out how to best weaponise it.

Because there are ways in which this might actually help if we place some heavy-duty limits and restrictions on the tech itself - I’m thinking about how much it might facilitate comprehension in a scenario where one could transmit the unmolested concept directly, instead of butchering it through language first. But that’s still such a hhhhyooooj responsibility, that I simply don’t think we could handle as we are now collectively.

I don’t get it, does Microsoft WANT everyone to stop using their products? First they fuck up their OSes, then they start planting shady shit in their OSes, and now it’s down to every single goddamned piece of software they poop out! What in the fuck are they even doing!

But it’s in Everyone’s Best Interest! Do you want to hide your thoughts? Why would you want that? Why do you oppose our unbridled access to the deepest recesses of your mind? Are you scared of what we might find? Do not be afraid, we just want to make you better! To bring our Harmony to your mind! To bring you our Peace! You must let us Enlighten you!

Can’t they all just go back to focusing on rockets and Mars colonies and such? Would be nice if they fucked off into space and left the rest of us to do not-so-stupid shit…

Me too, birds… me too…

This. Pretty much most well-known examples (and I’d even risk going so far as to say all examples ever) of “Communism” have either been Capitalist offshoots, or Totalitarian/Authoritatrian hellscapes dressed up as Communism. There has been no actual attempt at textbook Communism/Socialism so far, from what I know.

So the answer is: “no, because we haven’t even tried it as a species.”

This reads like Crypto shilling packaged in presenting valid concerns in a pseudo-relevant way…

Edit: also presupposes that Money™ is the only way to make the world work. The real issue, as with most things in our world nowadays, is Capitalism.

Yep, it’s always about profit and control with these assholes, never about what’s right or wrong. And even the religious pretext is just utter bullshit from where they’re standing, using it to make the pill easier to swallow for the brainwashed masses, nothing more…

These people don’t give a fuck about any sort of god or code, they just want more money and more power. That’s all there is to it.

Good point, I do feel my brain liquefying and gushing out through my friggin’ ears when seeing what we’re doing to ourselves…

Or, y’know… they could do some actual parenting and talk to their kids about this. Kids aren’t morons, they’re just inexperienced. They are actually capable of understanding, like, words and stuff as long as one offers enough context for them… Actually teach the kids to use the internet, help them develop some insights.

And if anyone’s panicked about the immoral stuff going on in the porn industry (and there are plenty of things to be addressed and critiqued about a hystorically predatory domain), then address those directly! Friggin’ nurture their critical thinking and empathy! Locking them up in the fucking basement isn’t gonna Protect Them From Evil™, it just ensures they’ll be maladapted and sociopathic once they manage to escape from fucking prison! (no pun intended)

Edit: I will say this forever and ever - it is the parents’ duty to adapt to the world in which their kids have to live, not to force their kids to adapt to a world their parents wish would apply!

Why not just gouge out their eyeballs, it’s the only way to make sure!

Oh, what’s that, it’s not actually about the porn, it’s about getting everyone to self-submit personal info to your shitty databases? Ooh, ok, gotcha!

Edit: sorry about the non-squitur, I’m losing my fucking mind…