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> Unless there is a French Revolution style uprising Yeah civilians are not going to win with weapons anymore. The imbalance there has been ridiculously dispro

> Unless there is a French Revolution style uprising Yeah civilians are not going to win with weapons anymore. The imbalance there has been ridiculously disproportionate for decades. But the common peon can use AI to look up laws and rights and other information and shit to see what we CAN still do. USE it before they take that away too.

sriram_malhar 4d ago
You can look up laws all night long. Check out all the laws broken by Potus, ICE (just to name a few) on a daily basis. The peasantry is not on the side that enforces the law. AI is. AI is a force multiplier. The more force you have, the more multiples of it you en up with. Flock uses AI to do surveillance at scale. Every cloud service has NSA backdoors.
- Razengan 4d ago
  So we stop AI, uninvent it, what then? We go back to how it was before AI And everyone will have a better life? Let's hear your plan
  - sriram_malhar 4d ago
    It isn't just AI. I would like a world without the poison of social media, without guns & bombs, without dangerous chemicals. Yes, in many many ways we'd be better off. We are accelerating the destruction of our planet. I don't have a better plan for humanity. I only have fear.
    - Razengan 4d ago
      > a world without the poison of social media No radio, no newspapers, no town criers, no gossip at the alewife's house? > I don't have a better plan for humanity. I only have fear. So your best move is to go around spreading that fear without offering ways to fix shit or inspiring anyone else to do so?
      - sriram_malhar 4d ago
        C'mon, you know better than to invoke a slippery slope. My best move is to influence the people I care about to reduce dependence on these things and seek happiness in non-tech things (where tech is defined as those controlled by corporations), from community, live life from first principles. You are forcing me to answer a strange binary ... propose a fix for the world at large, or let me continue with all this shit. The world isn't as black and white. Anyway, I'm done with this thread.
        lowbloodsugar 4d ago
        I would like to recommend, to both of you, Sarah Wilson’s I Eat the Stars: How to Live Fully and Beautifully in a Collapsing World. I am heartened that both of you are still trying to find solutions. -https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/241715900 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/241715900

sriram_malhar 4d ago

You can look up laws all night long. Check out all the laws broken by Potus, ICE (just to name a few) on a daily basis. The peasantry is not on the side that enforces the law. AI is. AI is a force multiplier. The more force you have, the more multiples of it you en up with. Flock uses AI to do surveillance at scale. Every cloud service has NSA backdoors.

Razengan 4d ago
So we stop AI, uninvent it, what then? We go back to how it was before AI And everyone will have a better life? Let's hear your plan
- sriram_malhar 4d ago
  It isn't just AI. I would like a world without the poison of social media, without guns & bombs, without dangerous chemicals. Yes, in many many ways we'd be better off. We are accelerating the destruction of our planet. I don't have a better plan for humanity. I only have fear.
  - Razengan 4d ago
    > a world without the poison of social media No radio, no newspapers, no town criers, no gossip at the alewife's house? > I don't have a better plan for humanity. I only have fear. So your best move is to go around spreading that fear without offering ways to fix shit or inspiring anyone else to do so?
    - sriram_malhar 4d ago
      C'mon, you know better than to invoke a slippery slope. My best move is to influence the people I care about to reduce dependence on these things and seek happiness in non-tech things (where tech is defined as those controlled by corporations), from community, live life from first principles. You are forcing me to answer a strange binary ... propose a fix for the world at large, or let me continue with all this shit. The world isn't as black and white. Anyway, I'm done with this thread.
      - lowbloodsugar 4d ago
        I would like to recommend, to both of you, Sarah Wilson’s I Eat the Stars: How to Live Fully and Beautifully in a Collapsing World. I am heartened that both of you are still trying to find solutions. -https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/241715900 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/241715900