Sometimes I think about all the other highly intelligent species we "share" this planet with: orangutans, orcas, crows, elephants, and more, and I really feel the weight of the damage humans have inflicted.
It's been shown that we have not even gotten close to understanding the complexity of these creatures, what they are capable of, and what they understand, and it's depressing that we don't respect them as conscious beings simply because their consciousness is not like ours.
@artemis There's a horror movie "Vivarium" that I think is a pretty clear-eyed analogy of what it feels like on the animal's side when we do some of these things to them.
@hrefna I think there is a case to be made that pure mental work like software dev is clearly open to automation by some future AI technology, although the claims that the current generation of LLMs can do it or even get close are clearly hogwash.
I think that the thing that's missing when people talk about that, is that software dev is one of the most challenging types of pure-mental work there is, like to an absolutely extraordinary degree. And therefore, that by the time it can be done by an AI, almost all the other types of white-collar work will have been automatable for quite a while -- including e.g. all of law, finance and accounting, business management (the quant side of it, not the interpersonal side necessarily). And, there's a pretty good argument that by that point AI strategists will be able to "outcompete" human strategists in a ton of different areas, including but not limited to business, political strategy, and war. And at that point, all bets are pretty much off as far as how the world is going to change and what it'll look like.
So, the idea that AI can write and maintain a big software system in the future isn't pure fantasy. But the idea that it would even be a highly pressing problem "well, what will I do for my job in the otherwise-unchanged-outside-that-one-career world we will inhabit at that point" is not, to me, well demonstrated.
Things people say when they don't understand what fascism is. And this one I believe is actually honestly against fascism. They just don't know anything they didn't "learn" on social media or YouTube.
These people are the same ones that allowed the Brown Shirts and the Nazis to win in 1922 and 1932.
There's a massive influx on Lemmy of fake accounts that are spreading the idea that as good leftists we shouldn't vote for Biden because he's terrible, and nothing bad can possibly happen from that, and they're pretty consistent and pretty obnoxious about spreading that message
I'm very sure that reasoning with them is a stressful and useless endeavor, but if it makes you feel any better, I'm pretty sure they're not actual humans; I think the real human population on Lemmy is mostly sensible and I would bet Masto is the same
Have you read "On Tyranny" and about Project 2025? It might be that most well-off people will be fine, and it'll only be the vulnerable that suffer, but I definitely don't think that that's certain.
(possibly a fake quote) "The West's position on the conflict is absurd, they do not want either Russia nor Ukraine to lose," – Ukrainian President, Volodymyr #Zelenskyi.
The idiot just realized that the war has nothing to do with Ukraine, it's freedom or safety, they are just tools in the game to weaken and destroy Russia to the last Ukrainian alive.
PS. Cartoon from 2022 #Ukraine#Russia#UkraineWar#NATO
Whiny manchildren getting so fucking mad about being asked to choose between playing a black man or a woman would be deeply entertaining if it weren't so tiresome. Racism vs misogyny: WHO WILL WIN
@kastark There's a wonderful game called Class Struggle which is somewhat the opposite of Monopoly. At the start, all the players hold out their arms to compare to each other, and the whitest and malest of them get to go first. The rules say that if that doesn't yield a clear ordering of the players (if there's a dramatically lighter-skinned woman and darker-skinned man and it's not clear which of them should be on top) the players argue it out at the table to decide.
Also, if one of the capitalist team lands on square 81, there's a nuclear war and the game immediately ends and everyone loses.
Here's all you need to know about Mark Penn's column: it does not use the word "abortion."
There's no point listening to any electoral advice that doesn't suggest Dems lean into their best issue in 50 years, one proven in 2022 & 2023 to work nationwide.
The NYT has for some reason (maybe since the new head editor in 2022? IDK, that's only a guess) become explicitly anti-Biden. I suspect that this article is their concern-trolling way of criticizing Biden, and doesn't at all represent actual constructive advice from someone who wants him to win.
Climate scientists: "expect a semi-dystopian future with substantial pain & suffering for the people of the global south. The world’s response to the [#ClimateCrisis] to date is reprehensible – we live in an age of fools” https://buff.ly/4aYSWMp
The suffering has come now to the people of the global south; the future holds death and suffering for everyone, even if we started right now to do what we should be doing to control the damage
Oh I thought there were a whole bunch on the list.
And the stories not being good isn't necessarily an obstacle... they made "The Lawnmower Man" without even bothering to pretend that it was related to the content of the story.
Also, holy shit - I just looked it up and there were some real masterpieces on the list. "The Last Rung on the Ladder" and "Night Surf", among some others I thought were outstanding little horror one-offs, were apparently part of it.
Nostalgia is a plague, especially when the people pushing it either remember it incorrectly or weren't even alive to see it...
Feel free to bring back the 90's in makeup and fashion, though: my eyebrows will thank you and I can continue to just wear what's already in my closet, only now I won't be an outlier 😂