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People are dumb and often do things that harm themselves and the world as a whole. That’s the reason AI is bad - not because we don’t like it, but because we shouldn’t like it, it makes us dumber, and is terrible for the planet on top of it all.
It’s like if I lit a bunch of tires on fire, bottled the smoke to smell as perfume, and justified it all by saying I found someone who liked the smell. It’s irrelevant, and doesn’t justify my actions at all.
Science is great; it’s the people who ignore it throughout school but still think they know enough to understand complex topics like medicine and climatology that are the problem.
…our president is a criminal who deserves to be in jail, but isn’t. Lawmakers themselves obviously can’t be trusted with this, either. I’d trust a random person off the street more than anyone in the government.
I remember being so excited when my family got a box to convert composite cables to coaxial so they would work with our old TV. I got my friend to bring over his gamecube all the time until I finally got my own after a few months.
What I’m describing is our current reality where policies are enacted for “safety” when really they’re to be abused. The news calls them “bad actors” or “rogue officers” but anyone who doesn’t see them as the expected results they are is fooling themselves. Stories like this are to normalize a system specifically being designed to vilify normal people instead of our actual enemies.
We can’t have a discussion about what a moral government would do with surveillance until we have a moral government. It’s so far from happening that the idea that it will ever be used to provide more good than bad is concernedly naive.
I’m not saying we shouldn’t take threats of violence seriously, I’m saying that a person’s private communications should never be publicly available, regardless of what dangers might go undiscovered, because the real danger of such a policy being misused overshadows that risk by orders of magnitude.
The issue with surveillance is that it relies on the assumption that the people with the privilege to access the information are honorable enough to only use it when necessary and only use it truthfully. I don’t trust our country or corporations not to have an AI “hallucinate” a death threat so that they have reasonable cause to detain anyone they want whenever they want.
Plus, I didn’t really think it’s all that different between my sister and I and a teacher and their students. My wife was a teacher, and while she never said she wanted to shoot a student, she’s certainly said she wanted to strangle one. Most of the other teachers I know have said similarly violent things. I also used to work with doctors, and they often say similar things as well.
People with tough jobs often release stress with violent candid statements about things that frustrate them, then go on to obviously never actually do anything violent. Again, it’s called hyperbole, and is a very common thing across all language. Even if this AI was completely infallible and couldn’t be used dishonestly, it would still have so many false positives that it would be nothing more than a boy who cried wolf.
The amount of times I said I was going to kill my sister in my life would have gotten me arrested if the government were listening to me. Anyone who knows me knows I love my sister, and would obviously never kill her. Hyperbole is frequently used in all aspects of human communication, and anyone who says it should be grounds for investigation is either lying, or stupidly believes that those in power could ever be trusted with such privileges.
One person’s heaven is another person’s hell. It’s why utopias are a paradox.
Sounds like a blast, but I think I’m too introverted for that, haha! Even just having my own small family over at one time has me socially exhausted.
Huh, I never even considered just doing 1 thanksgiving and inviting everyone even if they don’t know each other. We’ve always just done 2 events for any major holiday, sometimes 3 or 4 if we wanted to do something with different friend groups.
My wife and I have been together for 9 years, married for 3. I think our wedding was the 2nd or 3rd time our respective parents met each other, and they haven’t met since. Not a whole lot of time to build attraction. What events are you planning where 2 completely different families want to hang out with each other?
I can certainly think of some days that were bleak enough to not have any good sides; I prefer to think that all new days have potential, no matter how dark yesterday might’ve been.
Alarms worked perfectly for me. I might have dozens of alarms going off all the time, but I never forget stuff anymore! I make them automatically now, too; sometimes I’ll even go to make one after discussing plans with someone, and find that I already did it without thinking while we were talking.
Rich and powerful people used their power to make themselves richer. What, you thought they would use their power to benefit us? How do you think they got it in the first place? The only reason powerful people ever did anything for our benefit is because we used to burn down the houses and other possessions of the powerful people that didn’t.
They’re a for-profit company. What they want is money, and they don’t care who they have to piss off to get it. The only time any company does what customers want is when they think they’d make less money by going against it. Sony knows it’ll make more money even after some fans leave, because most won’t. The only influence we have is our money, because the only factor that matters is money.
I remember being so excited for PS3 given how much I loved PS2. First I had to wait over a year to get one because they produced way too few units for release, and it was sold out everywhere with scalpers trying to pass it off for $1,000+. Then, when I finally got one for a reasonable price, the game variety was just really shallow. If you aren’t into shooters and sports games there just isn’t much to find. Little Big Planet was pretty much the only game I spent a significant amount of time playing on my PS3. I never bothered with Sony after that, despite the fact that the PS2 is still far and away my favorite console of all time.
I have no faith in the voting system, and I vote anyway. It’s not like you can boycott voting - if both parties truly are in on it, then it’s not like they’re going to change anything just because turnout is low. If the solution lies elsewhere, which I believe it does, then whether or not you’re voting will have no effect on anything. Don’t be so sure you’re right that you throw away what could be a useful tool if you’re wrong.
Hedge your bets and take an hour or two out of your day every year to at the very least try to nudge things away from the worst possible outcome. It’s not like we’re anywhere near actually coming together and enacting our second amendment rights to force real change anytime soon anyway. Apathy got us into this mess - don’t think even more apathy will help; action will be what gets us out, if anything.
Good picture, but I would’ve preferred it if he looked happier and with his mouth open.
Damn, that sucks. But yeah, legal battles are so exhausting that even when you win you just feel tired.
Well, elections and the second amendment, yeah. Hopefully we can build a world where a policy can be made for good that actually does good, but we’ll see.