ParsnipWitch @ ParsnipWitch @feddit.de

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In what kind of reality are you living? Manosphere-dimension?

Men are btw not failing at university at all. The number of men successfully attending higher education continued to grow over the last centuries and it still does, with no significant change in rate.

It's just that women's successful attendance grows at a faster rate in the last ~10 years. And the reason isn't that you have a handful of programs teaching girls for a few days "how to code". It's that there are simply more women who believe that higher education is worth it.

More of them decide to go to university lately. If you want men to also decide more often that higher education is worth it, instead of blaming feminism, you should encourage that more boys and men turn their backs on the idea that it's unmanly to do your homework and learn.

I mean... They didn't really. Unless you believe everything is true on the internet.

In theory I can always do a short verbal test. But apart from the shock effect that doesn't have any consequences...

With the difference that the industrial revolution created a lot of new jobs with better pay. While AI doesn't. I see people suggesting that this has happened before and soon it will turn the economic situation into something much better. But I don't see that at all. Just because it's also a huge revolution, doesn't mean it will have the same effects.

As you have written, people will have to switch into manual jobs like layering bricks and wiping butts. The pay in these jobs won't increase just because more people have to work them.

Your fear is in so far justified as that some employers will definitely aim to reduce their workforce by implementing AI workflow.

When you have worked for the same employer all this time, perhaps you don't know, but a lot of employers do not give two shits about code quality. They want cheap and fast labour and having less people churning out more is a good thing in their eyes, regardless of (long-term) quality. May sound cynical, but that is my experience.

My prediction is that the income gap will increase dramatically because good pay will be reserved for the truly exceptional few. While the rest will be confronted with yet another tool capitalists will use to increase profits.

Maybe very far down the line there is blissful utopia where no one has to work anymore. But between then and now, AI would have to get a lot better. Until then it will be mainly used by corporations to justify hiring less people.

I've often seen people on Lemmy confidently state that current "AI" thinks and learns exactly like humans and that LLMs work exactly like human brains, etc.

Can you give a more concrete example what, in your opinion, gives them a feeling to not have a voice or to not be heared (on comparison to other groups)?

If you read online about current discussions regarding nature VS nurture, people are actually influenced more by a combination of peer pressure and media/cultural influence than their parents.

Sadly this also means that it's unlikely that, as a parent, you have much of a chance to work against those influences.

Sadly, this is even an issue at university. As a lecture assistant I will just get ignored or not taken seriously by some groups of young male students. They will talk loudly, ignore my request to not talk during lecture or exercise. My male colleagues don't have such issues and it angers me more each year...

This is the same argument as with "All Lives matter". Why do people have to be against feminism to talk about issues men face? Because that is what I am seeing. On Lemmy or even Reddit, I didn't see people laugh about male domestic abuse victims. But literally every discussion about it had misogynistic and anti-feminist comments.

Instead of emancipating from dehumanising and rigid gender norms for men, it seems like these Tate fans and red pillers and sigma, alpha men are trying to turn back the clock.

You want to tell them: "Stop, you are running into the wrong direction!"

What you seem to are saying is that specifically and exclusively people who work on software, music and digital art should give away their labour for free.

Do you know any platform that only offers digital stuff that's not buyable in a "good" way? Because I don't. That pirates pretend to ride some moral high horse is a cope that's incredibly disrespectful towards creators.

I feel in online communities like the Fediverse there is an active community of people who do not respect work of people who aren't working in tech or science. Or maybe it's predominantly a disrespect for creatives? I see this in discussions about AI image generators as well. And it's basically the same set of arguments that try to suggest artist should work for free.

They just have to add "get a real job and do your hobbies in your free time" and we have full circled back into the boomer mindset.

You can buy those movies on physical medium though.

There is enough open source and free and dirt cheap content available already that you can't play in a lifetime. While I agree that stuff that's too expensive for the majority of people shouldn't even exist, I don't see why creative content should be free for the taking in a society that doesn't support that way of life yet. Unless you also agree that people should be allowed to take everything else for free as well.

A lot of games for example you can buy on GoG, and archive the installation file. That is probably the closest you can come when it's about owning closed source software. Pirating games that are buyable on GoG is simply stealing money from the creators for no other reason than being greedy and cheap.

So I hope you check beforehand if that's actually the case for the specific product you pirate. What I am seeing is that people just pirate everything because they do not respect the creators. From digital art, to indie works in movies, games and music. People pirate because they have the deeply capitalist mindset that if you can pay less (or nothing) for something you should. Even if that means the person that put in the labour and skills has less because of your behaviour.

It's because people do not want to pay creatives because you can't physically touch stuff creatives produce.

Ignoring all options to actually buy something to pirate something because you also find offers were you can rent it is just a capitalist mindset. Denying workers money because you want stuff as cheap as possible.

What makes you believe that women are now the abusers and superior to men?