clonedhuman @ clonedhuman @lemmy.world

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We fully entered the realm of the hyperreal, a world where simulations of reality seem more real than reality itself. Our digital representations of reality have more influence over us than our actual material conditions...at least until we can no longer afford to eat or have a home.

It's worth keeping in mind that the people who made this decision at Columbia are, themselves, wealthy. They are behaving as wealthy people do--they only respond to power, they only care about power, and they will do ANYTHING to maintain power.

It's never about non-monetary things with wealthy people. They don't care about other people, even each other, or about high-falutin' things like academic freedom or free inquiry or free speech because unless those things bring them more power, more money.

They will sacrifice everything, anything, and anyone to maintain their status and they will ALWAYS bend the knee to anyone with more power, more capital, than they have. They have no investment otherwise. You can't keep your power if you have any focus other than your own power.

Nothing run by wealthy people is ever safe for the rest of us.

Yes, I love that movie. Great science fiction and somehow always seems to remain relevant.

This woman grew up wealthy and privileged--she comes from a family in Wyoming that was always connected and always had money. She's an attorney married to another attorney.

She is nothing like the people whose concerns she's laughing at and calling embarrassing. She doesn't have the same life experience as them, and she's never, for a single second of a single day, had to worry about paying her bills or lacking necessary things.

So she laughs when her constituents worry about these things, and she mocks them when they voice those concerns.

I think that's the issue--the current 'Republicans' in the Executive Office don't give a single shit if any of the smaller Republicans can ever return to their home districts. They are plundering all the bank vaults of government and keeping as much as they can for themselves. It's a party made up of powerful narcissists--the only thing keeping any of them in check is the greater power of other narcissists. They will eat each other once they've eaten all of us.

The issue with any of this is that we're assuming that we'll have another election in four years, and I'm not so sure about that.

How much actual power do you have in this regard?

Did you get to choose your job? Can you also choose not to have a job?

You're lucky.

100%

We never truly have a choice where to work unless we also have the choice not to work.

This episode is beautiful: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Darmok_(episode)

It is about communication.

oh no I'm a crab

We can only hope that people will get themselves a chance to directly demonstrate their approval of Musk. Hopefully many of us will have a chance to see him in a place we can reach him and show our disapproval.

If not, hopefully at least one person can find Musk in one of his hidey holes, behind his security, without his tiny human meat shield (or with, who cares) and clearly, without complication, demonstrate their disapproval of Leon.

Digital piracy can get you at least one of those happy things.

Most of the identification of things like 'horses' falls in line with the identification of things like 'crosswalks' and 'motorcycles'--in other words, the majority of the words associated with particular images in Google maps comes from people like us filling out Captcha, not from AI.

lol

I think the fact someone would need to explain this to you makes it pointless to try and explain it to you. I can't tell whether you're honestly asking a question or just searching for a debate to attempt to justify your viewpoint.

The consumer-side AI that a handful of multi-billion-dollar companies keep peddling to us is just a way for them to attempt to justify AI to us. Otherwise, it consumes MASSIVE amounts of our energy capacities and is primarily being used in ways that harm us.

And, of course, there's nothing they direct at us that isn't ultimately (and solely) for their benefit--our every use of their AI helps train their models, and eventually it will simply be groups of billionaires competing against one another to form the most powerful model that allows them to dominate us and their competitors.

As long as this technology remains determined by those whose entire existence is organized around domination, it will be a sum harm to all of us. We'd have to free it from their grips to make it meaningful in our daily lives.

The fact that the majority of us are essentially forced to participate in the capitalist market means that we will always be at the mercy of greasy, compliant, ass-sucking 'bosses.'

We don't have any freedom with work unless we have the freedom not to work.

I read this thread to find out what I should know but I still don't know it.

Inchworm by Danny Kaye.

Figure Eight by Blossom Dearie

Payback by Slayer

That's cool! My grandmother was similar--discovered email in her early 80s and loved it, got herself a printer to print out letters to send to people. Last I saw her before she died, she asked me to help set up her phone so she could answer emails on it.

She loved getting emails from people too. It made me remember how exciting that stuff was when I first started using it and it still felt like a great, new thing to make it easier to connect with folks and explore the world.