It should be an “opt in” thing, but as someone with at least half a brain; I find myself spending waaay too much time “opting out” or “entirely avoiding that pile of shit like a cow turd in a field full of landmines”.
AI ain’t got shit on me. I’m Kong Kong and I’ll eat your children, bitch.
There’s a lot of things humans would have been better off without, technologically.
24/7 News Cycle. 24/7 Social Media. Social Media in general. Smartphones.
For one thing, get it working before building thousands of data centers and turning the not even half-baked algorithms loose on the world. AI doesn’t have to equal trillions in investment and so much resource consumption.
“might”
There is a world wherein the surplus value from automation is used to enrich everyone and we move from a labor-based society to a human-based one, but too many people are capitalism-brained to the point that they’re fully incapable of even imagining what it might look like to live in a world where we’re not forced to labor for 70+ years then die
WHAT?! Wow, how did he possibly come to that conclusion? /s
It might turn out we were better off without electricity, but we’ll never know because we have electricity.
Ya think?
