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Think of the precedent. Think of all the shady shit we do all around the world and all the human rights violations that result. "We" (ie the state) absolutely don't want to.

The public is complicit. They don't WANT to hear about it. The more they hear about it, the harder they tune it out. They have a literal lifetime of experience tuning out the suffering and exploitation of the vulnerable individuals that they are needlessly cruel and violent to.

We're not going to, because we don't want to.

"They could get them elsewhere, so we might as well get a cut of our own occupation."

Don't worry, they're going to make Mexico pay for it all.

"Moved things to the center" is a subjective statement, but everyone can agree he has objectively moved things far to the right of where they had been.

"Boomerier," surely

Tsk, you just told us SO much more. scribbles notes

You're telling us more about yourself than you might intend.

My dog lost his nose in an accident when he was a puppy.

Oh, no! How does he smell?

Terrible!!

That's why I initially brought up all those forms of AI that are perfectly fucking fine. But you're like, NOPE. So don't throw that in MY face. Perhaps you didn't understand what I was saying. But you were STILL like, NOPE. Which leads me to believe YOU don't even know what you mean when you say, "AI". "Generative AI" isn't a specific thing. It's any software that outputs something a human might consume as content. You just mean, "bad shit I don't understand" I suppose.

The problem is not the technology, it is that entrenched capitalists are leveraging their wealth and power to steal culture from all of us, and cynical investors engaging in the largest pump and dump in history. And if you can't make that distinction, your voice doesn't have a damn thing to contribute to this conversation other than "Naw, fuck AI."

I've been on the receiving end of a lot of moral panics and it's not okay. Naw, fuck pearl clutchers.

Just, like, all of it. No more practicing chess against a computer. No more computer vision. No more single player Street Fighter. Fuck it all. It's inherently evil, we've decided for some reason. Clearly a nuanced and well researched position.