cross-posted from: https://kbin.earth/m/[email protected]/t/2771990
As data centers are shut down by angry mobs and AI surveillance cameras are ripped from their poles, the world’s tech billionaires and CEOs are waking up to the reality that the masses are, broadly speaking, not on board with their plan to automate the world with AI.
It helps to understand what you’re arguing against before arguing against it. Then you wouldn’t have wasted time on your comment.
It was a long, elaborate attempt to say that, wherever you go, you will be affected by those around and coerced to accommodate the majority of them in one way or another. That’s how societies work. Lamenting that you have no recourse is a waste of time.
Also, if 99% of them are in agreement about how things should be done and you are the remaining 1% there is a good chance that you are the problem and not the 99%.
Now, I’ve not denied that things are bad and that things need to change. We don’t disagree on that point. I just think your logic is fucked and leads to worse things in the end.
Wherever you go there will be child abusers. So therefore we shouldn’t lament it or try to improve things?
99% was just an exaggerated figure for a hypothetical that could be raised against my view. The point is that minorities don’t cease to have a right to autonomy just because they’re in the minority. The 99% could also have a strong vested interest to abuse the 1%.