Comment on How to smash the looms today - I've always loved tech. Now, I'm a Luddite. You should be one, too.
Zeth0s@lemmy.world 8 months agoIt’s like saying that someone who built the steam engine actively killed people. The steam engine was a great thing. Politics must deal with social changes. Because we know that any technological advance can result in social instability if left in the hand of wrong people.
Kasumi@lemmy.world 8 months ago
machinin@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I think you need a little more help with logic and reading comprehension before you respond so condescendingly.
OP’s point is that the technology will not create a paradise or hell. It is the political environment that does that. The technology is simply a tool that will be used.
NightAuthor@lemmy.world 8 months ago
But if the political environment is oppressive, do we want to give it another tool and just be like “now be sure to use it for good”.
I agree that no technology is inherently evil, not even something like the atomic bomb. But you have to consider the actual and likely future environment that the technology will be in. And this state of regulatory capture, let the largest pocket book have the most speech, ever consolidating wealth and power situation is not one in which I believe we should be contributing new potentially oppressive technologies. We should be hindering them as we simultaneously work to reform our government and economic structure.
Zeth0s@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I am well, thanks for asking.
Currently the tech I am a huge fan of is helping me a lot handling the daily business. It has been a godsend for my mental health. It is helping me in a lot of area I struggle with (paper work and meaningless corporate processes), it helps me better organizing my work, and it support me in areas where I used to heavily rely on Google and forums. It helps me to learn and improve. Overall I am a happy chatgpt customer.
Other than that, we don’t have AI yet, still layoffs are at record number. Layoffs and suffering are not caused by AI, or whatever fancy tech. They are caused by current economic system that cannot redistribute wealth. They’ve been there before AI, they’ll be there after AI.
If you believe that blocking AI will change anything… No it won’t. It won’t change anything.