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Cake day: June 8th, 2023

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  • Theoretical technology could be dangerous in the wrong hands eventually, sure.

    However, “AI” is dangerous in the current hands now.

    • The military are using it to bomb civilians without accountability.
    • Politicians are using it to write laws.
    • Doctors are using it to approve surgeries.
    • Lawyers are using it to cite precedent.
    • Police are using it to surveil the innocent.
    • Pedophiles are using it to generate child pornography trained from real images.
    • The Epstein class are using it to get even more wealthy while they poison us, steal our water, and ruin our environment.
    • We use it to shoddily do tasks that isolate ourselves from eachother instead of collaborate together.

    We can take the bait and worry about what may come, our we can address what us currently happening.

















  • This is just another example of Democrats losing initiative and being lead on a leash by Republican talking points.

    There is no reason for Democrats to defend Piker, he isn’t running for anything. Even if he was, the Republicans are faking being mad at a lie they told themselfs.

    If Democrats want to start talking about any of the many important things that they might need to talk to voters about, they need to pick their battles better and understand what these bad faith traps looks like.

    Ps: this is all assuming the establishment Democrats are themselves acting in good faith and not collaborating in an attemp to kill progressive grassroots movements.





















  • We can blame multiple things. But I think we have to remember that capitalism and greed has been the leading cause or excuse of this behavior for most of human history.

    Hitler became wealthy beyond his wildest dreams.

    The slave trade was extremely lucrative for the Dutch east India company.

    Most empires in history traded humans they conquered as commodities.

    This is to say, the point isnt only just cruelty.

    I think the more abstract power concept is also very much the point, but it might be harder for some people to grasp. It is hard to quantify power, but easy to quantify money. And money is traded for power in our society.