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You care about Karma points? On the Fediverse, even?
I care about the sentiment, not the points.
Okay, so you only want to say things that are popular within a community, and you consider people who say things that are unpopular to be "trolls" that should be excluded from that community.
This is what makes social media into self-reinforcing information bubbles and leads people to be out of touch with the general public. Like this Thunderbolt tool - if "nobody asked for this", as another commenter in this thread said, why do you think it was made? There's actually a lot of demand for AI tools in the real world but communities like this one create narratives that convinced themselves that it's all some kind of delusional grift with unclear motives. When someone like me comes along that challenges that narrative, ooh, troll. Downvote and drive out! And you wonder why everyone left seems to agree?
You should really just block me if you don't want to hear my views. I suppose you could report me to the mods if you think I've actually broken any rules, but that normally requires a bit more backing it up than just disagreeing with my opinion or thinking it's unpopular. Otherwise you're just going to waste your time and make yourself unhappy.
Facedeer, if you don't want people to see you as a troll, don't complain about "apocalyptic" rhetoric around AI job loss one day, then say people are in "denial" if they don't believe it the next day.
In other words, don't be a troll.
In other words, "don't have an opinion about AI that's different from mine."
Facedeer, posting two contradictory things is not "having an opinon." It is trolling.
You should try having an opinion, and even sticking to the topic (addressing Mozilla's waste instead of bloviating about some vague virtue of the right to speech ). It would be so much more interesting.
What's contradictory? A lot of people in that thread about AI capabilities were in denial. A lot of other people are making apocalyptic statements.
See that "other people" thing? Different people have different opinions and react differently. That's the point I'm making here, too. Not everyone hates this AI tool that Mozilla has put out.
FaceDeer, don't act dumb. You clearly went into both threads to attack and name-call anybody who doesn't criticize AI under your ill-defined, ever-shifting standards. So your attacks ended up contradictory and hypocritical.
And now you're here to defend Mozilla waste by suggesting there are people who totally wanted it. (Are they in the room with you right now?)
FauxLiving, harmburgler, Avid Amoeba, and CyberSeeker are discussing it in positive terms elsewhere in this very thread. 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘 had a more cautiously open view. So yes, they are in the "room" with us right now.
Since you care about upvotes, note that many of my comments here have garnered a decent number of those too.
You ignored the first half of my statement. Noted.
To the second half: show me where they asked Mozilla to spend money on it before Mozilla did. Otherwise you misinterpreted what I wrote.
I ignored the first half of your statement because it was just pointless badmouthing of me.
I'm ignoring the rest of your comment because it's a weird goalpost shift. Why would Mozilla ask a bunch of random people on the Fediverse what they want? You're upset because they didn't personally ask you what to do?
You can't name anyone who asked for this thing that Mozilla is burning money on? Noted.
Don't be so quick to confidently name names, then. Including with the weird "karma" accusation you tried throwing at me.