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@indigotaway @suchnerve some people wouldn’t be as suicidal if they felt they had more time
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@AbiShuuwi @lionel_trolling That’s like the only reason anyone practiced Freudian psychoanalysis
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@lionel_trolling I STILL take Freudian psychoanalysis seriously because it's one of the few academically acceptable ways I can accuse people I don't personally like of being perverts without evidence.
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Yeah, I wonder if something happened around then that made it look like humanity was intrinsically irrational and aggressive
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Something people don't talk about so much these days is that in post-WW2 America, people took Freudian psychoanalysis very seriously for some reason.
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crown retuiteado
This is the greatest and kindest arrangement the atoms had in them
DiscussingFilm@DiscussingFilm
New look at Earth. (Source: Artemis II Crew)
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@Goldxn_Violin consumerism and flash entertainment absorbs engagement
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crown retuiteado
Genocide and hunger across the planet but here's a cool picture from a distance so you can be proud of yourself in your meritless complicity.
BSF 🇬🇧🐀@BSF42069
We’ve come a long way
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crown retuiteado
Every generation will be more lonely and isolated than the last. Everyone is forgetting what it means to be human. Jacques Ellul speaks of this.
Jane Dashley@JaneDashley
yikes dude developing the skill of having good sex is one of the deepest forms of self-knowledge and one of the most powerful inroads to true intimacy love and creativity. These young adult women using language to describe it that is indistinguishable from incels...I am unwell
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@_ontologic @9mmballpoint “The lack of any fundamental curiosity at all about AI from the left” you don’t know anything! I know leftists IRL who work in AI and see its potential!
You lack a big picture- you work from idealistic perspectives rather than material conditions
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@large_shelf @9mmballpoint My point is that your analysis is extremely Amerocentric and is not considering 1) how effective the tech is already and 2) how many options there are beyond the big US labs
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Techbro: You will all lose your jobs, your art, and any ability to know what's real or fake. We have decided that this is a fact of life now, and humanity must submit to our new world.
Leftists: That sounds bad.
Techbro: OH SO YOU WANT TO GO BACK TO HORSES AND STAGECOACHES???
∿spencer.@_ontologic
The lack of any fundamental curiosity at all about AI from the left has been one of the most discouraging things of my life, but that’s okay because I will simply become the epicenter of a new and cooler left that likes technology
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@_ontologic @9mmballpoint I’m trying to work in AI and I already know how it works and where it’s effective and open source and China and all that
The problem is you have idealized AI into a singular thing, to the point you have straw manned the “left” into being a mean group of anti-ai dogmatists
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@_ontologic @9mmballpoint If you see people reacting to the manifestation of AI and its horrible uses- and you say, well, what about China’s open source community!
You’re just missing the point! People want change that addresses real problems! Not potential advances that might address real problems!
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@large_shelf @9mmballpoint There is an enormous open source AI community in China. You’re interpreting AI as purely a product of US corporate dynamics and missing the benefit of the underlying tech.
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@_ontologic @9mmballpoint AI isn’t some abstract source from which its manifestations emanate. AI as an idea exists in the physical world as manifestations of technological transformations along social, political, economic causal chains
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@_ontologic @9mmballpoint I believe in a hypothetically effective diffusion of AI and its power exactly where it’s able to be useful. But this goes into more complex, shitty political issues, like how we haven’t invested in our electrical grid, or parents don’t have enough time with their children
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@large_shelf @9mmballpoint Yes and my argument is that it is a powerful tool that should be used for humanity instead of ceded to those who don’t want to use it that way.
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@_ontologic @9mmballpoint All modern conservative rhetoric operates by arguing for the alignment towards abstracted, idealist realities, rather than the one we live in- AI could be great, it has that potential, that is not the world we are entering. The proper response is to analyze AI as it exists
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@9mmballpoint This is not the mindset I’m criticizing, I think the AI industry as a whole does have terrible messaging. The mindset I’m criticizing is the totalizing “this means all AI is bad and can never be used for anything useful” mindset.
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@TonySneedprano is she actually that short or is it a lady gagita situation
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this looks like a shot from a david lynch film
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@deathbian lol you blocked him and he’s getting really mad thinking I blocked him so he can’t reply to me
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@large_shelf because they can't actually argue against it
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"i fully consented to sex based on what i knew. afterward, i found out something about this person that would have prevented me from consenting to sex with them" being accepted as "rape" is logic that makes all pre-breakup sex retroactively rape by whoever got dumped. the...
John Rawls Duck@moldbugchaser
"not realizing that someone is transgender while fucking them" sounds like a serious skill issue and I don't understand how this could happen in real life
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@theonlyrealscp @deathbian (3) and it’s the same assumption made by incel men who don’t understand why women won’t have sex with them- he has a body after all, and a penis, so why not?- and it can only be made if you don’t have sex, or enjoyable sex, and just use other people as masturbation
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@theonlyrealscp @deathbian (2) you’re putting forth “sex” and sexuality as a sort of exchange of bodies, your body for my pleasure, my penis with your vagina. It reduces sexuality to mere physical process, when sex is a social process that overwrites or is conferred upon by the physical one
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