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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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Io ho iniziato a Ottobre 2020, post Covid. Avevo bisogno di fare qualcosa di utile.
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@evan to put this another way: we either have a notion of somebody's "space" as opposed to just their account, or we don't - and currently we don't just as xitter doesn't
if we don't have "space" to post to, what I'm suggesting is the most privacy-preserving option
i'd be entirely cool with adding a notion of spaces and everybody having one of their own by default ("communities" being another example that's not always owned by exactly one account), except if we've got that far i want the option of "exactly these people" filters too
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@evan I think there should be 2 settings: "followers only" and "followers cascade" (or something).
The first restricts it to Alice's followers only. So Bob's reply is not visible to any of his followers that are not also Alice's followers.
The second is visible only to Alice's followers when posted but becomes visible to all Bob's followers once he replies.This second setting would probably more safe than a general public post, based on the birds of a feather hypothesis, but less safe than the first.
I an ideal world, where everyone behaves themselves, all posts should be public for all. I'm going to take a nap now until that happens. Wake me up when it comes.
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@ykbooks there are also some great journalists and writers on the fediverse such as
@Daojoan @JuliusGoat, @molly0xfff @reece @carastern
@ProPublica and of course @chloewilliams
@thenarwhal and many many more.
Use the search bar to look for people you might want to follow and let me know if you run into any issues.
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@evan yes! The primaries are super important to focus on, since they're when we have a chance to replace ineffective (or even collaborating) neoliberals with progressives. THIS is the time to fight like hell for the best candidates, not by withholding votes in the general.
IMO if the Democratic party stays under the forceful control of neoliberals, they will keep losing important elections. When polled on individual issues, US voters strongly support progressive policies.
