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  • What exactly am I “pulling out of my ass”?

    Nobody said it’s a person

    You’re talking about Nintendo as if it’s a person with phrases like your bullet point 2.

    I’m not defending anyone. I’m describing how a corporation is likely to react in capitalism. I don’t condone any of this: I don’t condone copyright laws, I don’t condone legal threats, I don’t condone capitalism. I just try to describe how systems behave without trying to get morality involved by claiming a company is (or is run by) an or several assholes.

    I also don’t condone nuclear weapons when I describe the strategy of deterrence by mutually assured destruction.












  • I knowof Steven Pinker and don’t agree with his conclusions. I even got a video debunking him you’re probably not gonna watch either

    but when actually pressed for specific ways it has gotten worse, they are almost always arguing from a complete ignorance of history.

    You’ve ignored my point about climate change. I’m quite sure that concerning history, I got a bit more nuanced takes than you do.

    Lifespan is much longer, healthspan is much longer

    Medical advances have been made, yes. Inpart due to, technological advancements. These are fundamentally good and not what I’m arguing against.

    rapes are way down

    How is that a result of technological advances and not social movements fighting for a brighter future?

    murders are way down, torture is way down,

    I doubt that, if you look at it globally. Israel is currently performing a genocide. I consider that murder.

    dying in childbirth is way down

    Again, healthcare advances.

    incest is way fown, pedophilia is way down, starvation is way down

    Not touching those points.

    dying from wild animals is way down

    Ecodiversity is way down and global pandemics are way up.

    wars are way down

    Are you kidding me? Did you live under a rock for the last 50 years?

    Problems now for lots of the world are things like people bickering over who gets to be next to who when they pee and who called a “he” a “she”.

    No, problems now for “lots of the world” is climate change, job insecurity, housing crisis, dangers of a global war escalation, …

    This idea that the world is way worse than it used to be

    Not what I said.

    selfish brats completely oblivious of where we came from

    Says the person who choses to ignore how much progress has been done through sometimes violent, social movements.





  • Every word in every language changes over time. The term AI changing is the absolute normal. It’s not some mark against it.

    Lumping machine learning algorithms, llms, regressive learning, search algorithms all in one bucket and calling it “AI” serves no proper purpose. There is no consensus, it’s not a clear definition, it’s not convenient and it only helps sell bullshit. Llms aren’t intelligent. Calling them that is the opposite of useful.

    Current llms are phenomenally beneficial for some things.

    Namely: the portfolio of tech shareholders and grifters.

    Millions of developers have had their entire careers completely changed.

    Lol, no. What’s your source for this?

    Teachers are able to grade work in 10% of the time.

    Poor students.

    Children through to college students and anyone interested in learning have infinitely patient tutors on demand 24 hours a day.

    Have you heard of the stories where students believed some AI bullshit more than what their teacher told them? Great “tutor” you have there.

    The fact that you are completely clueless about what is going on

    Sure, bud. /s

    It just means that you not only feel like you are “beyond learning”, it also means that you don’t even have people in your life that are still interested in personal growth, or you are too shallow to have conversations with anyone who is.

    Oh, please tell me more about my life, stranger on the internet! /s

    What an asshole, seriously.

    Have fun in your tech cult, you ableist bootlicker.