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or maybe just time to grow up
This is the kind of arguments people made against the free-software movement in the first place. That it's somehow more mature to not care about consequences of what we do and how we do it
I think it's exactly the other way around
The difference is that free-software movement is about rolling up your sleeves and actually making alternatives as opposed to throwing a tantrum like spoiled children which is what you all are. You lot are just a modern day iteration of Luddites who were raging against the technology as opposed to social relations that resulted in the technology being used in abusive ways. And lacking basic understanding of the problem you are doomed to fail the same way as your predecessors.
"Grow up, join the sect. If not you'll be left out when we all become AI-augmented and fly to Mars"
Thank you for taking your valuable time away from huffing gas to share your invaluable insights.
join the sect says the person who's against a glorified calculator?
My calculator has 100% accuracy, always, it's never wrong. If AI were like that it'd be great.
And calculators can't be tweaked to subtly change messaging to push a narrative, or a product, or whatever.
Calculators didn't steal the work of all humanity to try to put them out of a job.
Calculators don't really get used for scams by cloning people's voices.
Could go on and on how calculators and LLMs are different.
wait till you find out how floating point works 🤣