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Yeah, that's the catch isn't it? On one hand, we're ceding skills to oligarch-owned chat bots that are working day and night to create to neofeudal police state where their air conditioned bunkers can survive the climate apocalypse, but on the other hand, it makes your job slightly easier (until you're inevitably laid off).
It's a really tough spot to be in.
I think figuring out how to find solidarity across the working class is a guidepost to revolution.
It's more than okay to admit that it's challenging. Anything else is just untrue.
I do think the effort is worth it. I think uniting for a better world is the prize we win when we figure out how to construct a society that accommodates as much diversity of thought and lifestyle as our civilization contains.
And I say "fuck em" until they actually change their stance and views. People might say "oh you need to be tolerant and patient and teach them the error of their ways," but these are the people that know damn well the impact AI is having on literally everything but they're still just going "whee! It makes my job easier for 5 minutes!"
So, fuck em.
Yea, let's get ride of computers all together. In fact, let's destroy the loom too!
I'll go get my sledgehammer.
Zahille7, I find it disturbing how you and several others relish the thought of siding with the Facebook CEO and against his workers, looking for literally any sin to attack them.
Of course he's wrong about AI. So are a bunch of cashiers. You expressed the desire to go after them too.
I'm not "going after" anyone. Nor am I siding with any billionaire or CEO.
I'm specifically saying that these coders and other tech people who are deep in the know, continue to use AI regardless of the environmental and social impact; they've made their bed, and now they need to lie in it. I have no sympathy for them for saying "hey, I don't like being surveilled at work, but it's totally fine for others to do it."