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Something snapped into place in my mind. There is an anti-AI position that has absolutely nothing to do with luddism, or any other anti-tech position.
AI is cognitive suburbanization.
Think about it. Architecting everything so that I can't do even the most basic thing without gratuitously using a big, bloated, planet-destroying energy hog- one that *in theory* saves time, but actually just wastes it. Reducing all my options to the same generic, regurgitated, cookie cutter slop.
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Something snapped into place in my mind. There is an anti-AI position that has absolutely nothing to do with luddism, or any other anti-tech position.
AI is cognitive suburbanization.
Think about it. Architecting everything so that I can't do even the most basic thing without gratuitously using a big, bloated, planet-destroying energy hog- one that *in theory* saves time, but actually just wastes it. Reducing all my options to the same generic, regurgitated, cookie cutter slop.
This isn't necessarily rejecting technology, anymore than rejecting the suburban lifestyle is anti-civ.
Plenty of people choose city life, the supposed inconvenience of "having" to walk everywhere, the surprise and unexpected experiences this brings over a generic, highly curated experience, the verisimilitude and variety we gain from that experience, quirky little corner shops and cafes over chain restaurants and malls.
That same reasoning is how I've answered every single AI booster
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This isn't necessarily rejecting technology, anymore than rejecting the suburban lifestyle is anti-civ.
Plenty of people choose city life, the supposed inconvenience of "having" to walk everywhere, the surprise and unexpected experiences this brings over a generic, highly curated experience, the verisimilitude and variety we gain from that experience, quirky little corner shops and cafes over chain restaurants and malls.
That same reasoning is how I've answered every single AI booster
I want my skills sharp, kept sharp by looking things up and thinking for myself, the same way walking everywhere keeps me healthy.
I'm enriched by the random things I learn and random skills I pick up while doing so.
I don't want to be unable to do the simplest thing without relying on a bloated planet-killing monstrosity.
Most of all, I don't want my entire life, mind, and experience reduced to the cognitive equivalent of a strip-mall.
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I want my skills sharp, kept sharp by looking things up and thinking for myself, the same way walking everywhere keeps me healthy.
I'm enriched by the random things I learn and random skills I pick up while doing so.
I don't want to be unable to do the simplest thing without relying on a bloated planet-killing monstrosity.
Most of all, I don't want my entire life, mind, and experience reduced to the cognitive equivalent of a strip-mall.
These reasons are *exactly* why I live exclusively in cities if at all possible, why I live in one now despite incurring a 1/2hr+ trip to the lab.
This is why I'm known to say things like "I have neither the self-loathing nor the masochism to live in the suburbs"
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Something snapped into place in my mind. There is an anti-AI position that has absolutely nothing to do with luddism, or any other anti-tech position.
AI is cognitive suburbanization.
Think about it. Architecting everything so that I can't do even the most basic thing without gratuitously using a big, bloated, planet-destroying energy hog- one that *in theory* saves time, but actually just wastes it. Reducing all my options to the same generic, regurgitated, cookie cutter slop.
@emc2 I’ve been thinking along a similar line. AI is a social catastrophe similar to the imposition of car culture across the country. I the name of convenience and efficiency we kicked of massive oil consumption and the gutting of the social fabric of high-density walkable neighborhoods.
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I don't think it breaks expectations.
It's also the way most social networks work. If the OP posts privately, all the comments and replies to comments are visible to *all* the OP's followers.
This is how Facebook, Instagram, and X all work.
They let you have private conversations with people that matter to you. It's one of the best parts of those platforms.
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@dgelessus I managed to replicate this Wikipedia snippet in DDG by saying "lang:de" but uhhhh 😭
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@elly @nina_kali_nina Amazing. I didn't even know of, or hadn't ever come across Linux in High School. 😿
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@nina_kali_nina KNOPPIX was *great*. And underlines for me how much of our current computing world is a solution in search of a problem.
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@nina_kali_nina For researching things like this, it's unfortunate that no search engine lets you easily say "give me results in ALL languages, I'll figure it out, don't worry". Even DDG with the country switch off seems to filter by rough region/language based on GeoIP, at least until you reach the second page of results.
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Yes. That's equivalent to Alice setting their post followers only, and Bob setting their post public, but less confusing to the user.
(Edit: realized you hadn't said what Bob's visibility was set to. Anyway: UI quibbles aside, the answer is that you intersect the people who are able to view)
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@nina_kali_nina It's more just luck that my country speaks one of the 2 languages whose Wikipedia mentions this fact :) Here in Germany, putting "ubuntu morphix" into any search engine naturally shows this Wikipedia article as one of the top results, and at least DDG even highlights the relevant sentence in the text preview.
