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Look, it's simple. If a person has to actively work to make money, they're not "the rich" and they're not the problem. A surgeon making $200k a year still stops making money if they stop showing up to do surgery, because they're still selling their labor. The radical discrepancies in how we value different skills are certainly a problem, but the guy who makes money when he doesn't even get out of bed is the one making money on the value of other people's labor.
generative AI literally makes me feel like a boomer. people start talking about how it can be good to help you brainstorm ideas and i’m like oh you’re letting a computer do the hard work and thinking for you???
There are many difficult things that were replaced with technology, and it wasn't a bad thing. Washing machine replaces washing clothes by hand. Nothing wrong with that. Spinning wheel replaces drop spindle. Nothing wrong with that.
Generative AI replaces thinking. The ability to think for yourself will always be important. People that want to control and oppress you want to limit your ability to think for yourself as much as possible, but continuing to practice it allows you to resist them.
"This tool replaces thinking," is a technology problem we (humans) have faced before. It's a snark that I've seen pro-AI contenders take as well: I bet these same people would have complained about calculators! And books!
Well. They did, at the time.
We have records from centuries -- even millennia back -- of scholars at the time complaining that these new-fangled "books" were turning their students lazy; why, they can barely recite any poems in their entirety any more! And there are people still alive today who remember life before widely available calculators, and some of them complained -- then and now -- that bringing them into schools dealt a ruinous blow to math education, and now these young people don't even know how to use a slide-rule.
And the thing is:
They weren't wrong.
The human brain can, when called on, perform incredible feats of memorization. Bards and skalds of old could memorize and recite poems and epics that were thousands of lines long. This is a skill that is largely lost to most of the population. It's not needed any more, and so it is not practiced.
There is a definite generational gap, between the people who were trained on slide-rules and reckoning and the generation that was taught on calculators. There came a year, when that first generation grew up and entered the workforce, when you suddenly started encountering grown adults who could not do math -- not even the very basic arithmetic needed to count down from one hundred. I would go into a shop, buy an item for sixteen dollars, give the cashier a twenty and a one because I want a fiver back, and have them stare at the money in incomprehension -- what do? They don't know how to subtract sixteen from twenty-one. They don't know how to calculate a fifteen-percent tip. They did not exercise the parts of their brain that handle this, because they always had a calculator to do it for them.
Nowadays, newer point-of-sale machines compensate for this; they will automatically calculate and dispense the change, no subtraction necessary on the part of the operator. Nowadays everyone carries a phone, and every phone carries a calculator, so if you need to do these calculations, the tool is right there. As more and more transactions go electronic and card, and cash fades further and further out of daily life, these situations happen less and less; it's not a problem that most people can't do math (until it is.)
The people who complained that these tools-that-replace-thinking would reduce the ability of the broad population to exercise these cognitive skills weren't wrong. It's simply that, as the pace of life changed, the environment changed so that in day-to-day life these skills were largely unnecessary.
So.
Isn't this, ChatGPT and Generative AI, just the latest in a long series of tool-replaces-thought that has, broadly, worked out well for us? What's different about this?
Well, two things are different.
1) In the previous instances of tool-replaces-thinking, the cognitive skill that it replaced was a discrete and, on a day-to-day basis, unnecessary outlay of energy. Most people don't need to memorize thousands of lines of poetry, or anything else for that matter. Most people don't need to do more than cursory levels of math on a day to day basis.
This, however, is different. The cognitive skill that is being obsoleted here is more than "how to write essay" or "identify what is the capital of Rhode Island." It encompasses the entire field of being able to generate new thoughts; of being able to consider and analyze new information; of being able to follow logical trains to their conclusions; of being able to order your thoughts to construct rational arguments; or indeed of being able to express yourself in any structured way. These cognitive tools are not occasional use; they are every day, all the time.
2) In the previous instances of tool-replaces-thinking, the tool was good at what it did.
Calculators may have replaced reckoning, but calculators are also pretty good at what they do. The calculator will, as long as you give the right input, give the right answer. ChatGPT cannot be relied on to do this. ChatGPT will tell you, confidently and unhesitantly and dangerously, that 2+2=5, and it will not care that it is wrong.
Books may have replaced memorization, and books certainly could be wrong; but a fact, once in a book, is pretty stable and steady. There is not a risk that the Guy Who Owns All The Encylopedias might wake up one day and decide -- to pick a purely hypothetical example -- that the Gulf of Mexico is called something else, and suddenly all the encyclopedias say that.
Generative AI fails on both these counts. It fails on every count. It's inaccurate, it's unethical, it's unreliable, it's wrong.
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I remember some time ago seeing someone say (it was a video about medieval footwear, actually) that "humans have a great energy-saving system: if we can be lazy about something, we are."
This is not a ethical judgment about humans; this is how life works. Animals -- including humans -- will not do something the hard way if they can do it the easy way; this basic principle of conservation of resources is universal and morally neutral. Cognition is biologically expensive, and though our environment is not what it once was, every person still goes through every day choosing what is valuable enough to expend resources on and what is not.
Because of this, I don't know if there is any solution, here. I think pushing back against the downhill flush of the-easy-way-out is a battle both uphill and against the tide.
So I'll just close with this warning, instead:
Generative AI is a tool that cannot be trusted. Do not use it to replace thought.
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no more jokes about taylor swift's lyrics or about gaylor when all that does is distract from the fact that when it is no longer lucrative to present yourself as a liberal "progressive" artist she has quickly moved on to marrying and befriending trump supporters. i do not care if there was anything gay between her and her ex bestie when her new bestie brittany mahomes is being personally thanked by donald trump. i think it's a shame that all discourse i see on this site about her right now is about whether it's ridiculous and stupid to think she's not straight. what we should be talking about is what it means when the biggest international pop star is getting engaged to a trump supporter during a time when we are seeing eugenics white supremacy ads. i don't care to hear about the eras tour unless it's about how dave portnoy (a trump supporter and alleged rapist) got a personal handwritten note from her at the eras tour. it does not matter if you think she's a crap lyricist or the best lyricist of our generation when what matters is what her choice to align herself with maga signifies about the culture
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just because im saying you cant ever be a real woman doesnt mean im transphobic! trans “women” are just their own gender, unique to womanhood and in contstant imitation of that, and we should celebrate that!
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apparently i’ve been falsely marked red on shinigami eyes so friendly reminder that extension is literally worse than useless at this point
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Conspiracy theorist discovers basic geometry
citing wikipedia is harsh but citing khan academy is going for the fucking jugular
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Trump has put a full HRT ban for every single trans adult in the country and has made it the issue which a government shutdown hangs on.
Either Democrats, who have said publicly for months they will do anything to avoid a government shutdown, sign the death warrants of 3,000,000+ Americans or shutdown the Federal government.
Now is the time to act. Right. Fucking. Now.
And if you even entertain this idea, you need to be excluded from polite society when all of this is over because you are a genocide accomplice
It appears Democrats have already decided to sacrifice us.
We really need to immediately decouple all of our political hopes from the Democratic Party
i was warching a video by a trans woman talking about some small internet horror series. at some point she goes "i don't want to force my reading on people and umm idk maybe i'm grasping at straws but i think the protagonist might be trans? again maybe i'm wrong and don't know anything" and like the series in question has a scene where the protagonist walks into a room with her family in it who then immediately begin to argue about her gender and misgender her aggressively, while something that can only described as a dysphoria homunculus sits curled up in the corner. She then walks in front of a mirror and her reflection is said dysphoria homunculus.
like there's a man out there who made a career out of going "is animal crossing actually about being in a cult?" or "these three pixels on freddy fviebears balls look a little off. this proves that sans is purple guy" and we have trans women who are scared of analysing the world's most obvious transgender trauma scene
Make sure to boycott all local shows and bands btw
You can't be punk if you listen to music
You can't be punk
It's just not possible
Remaking this post since I’m pretty sure it got deleted, and a lot of people found it very helpful. This is a medical diagram of before and after bottom surgery for trans femmes.
this shit is actually life changingly informative to girls who are on the fence abt bottom surgery or scared of getting it
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST all punkitt said was "hey maybe trans women should at least try to make community with more than just trans women" and you all are jumping to so many conclusions! She understands that it isn't really safe, but trying to reach out and build any sort of community does more than just telling yourself and everyone else (INCLUDING BABY TRANS WOMEN WHO ARE IN DIFFERENT AREAS AND SITUATIONS THAN YOURS) that everything is bad and everyone is going to hurt you no matter what.
That is literally not what the post says though. The post massively exaggerates & strawmans the reasons why a trans woman might feel safer with other trans women. She places blame for this exclusively on trans women, rather than, you know, the TME people reinforcing institutional transmisogyny every day.
The reason we don’t trust what she fucking says about trans women being mostly friends with trans women is because she has completely shut down any conversations about transmisogyny within the trans community. So this post essentially blaming trans women for our own isolation from the rest of the community is being followed up by literally years of posts about how trans girls do too much “infighting” and constantly pretending that transfems aren’t underprivileged in comparison to TME trans folks.
This is after she publicly blasted personal, locked, hidden posts written by friends of mine to her thousands of followers in order to publicly mock & harass her.
Literally nobody is saying “everything is bad no matter what”. That’s the whole fucking point you dumb cunt. She’s intentionally exaggerating legitimate fears of transmisogyny into a strawman of Women Who Are Afraid Of Everything. It’s fucking misogynistic. Even you right now are doing it!!!!! How on earth are you blaming trans women for feeling like the rest of the world hates us?? When are you gonna blame the people fucking responsible for that you awful piece of shit?
It's crazy how women who believe that all men are mindless rapists are like. Extreme anti-feminist strawmen who essentially don't exist in real life. And a man who believes that all women are mindless vessels for receiving sex is, like, your dad
TERFism is an obviously politically influential ideology in multiple continents-- from the recent UK ruling that the legal definition of a woman does not include trans women, to Gavin Newsom referring to the participation of trans women in female sports as "unfair."
Notably, despite the huge body of TERFs and the clear ability to politically mobilize, I cannot point to a single act of legislation, or even serious proposed legislation, that restricts or attacks the rights of men on the basis that they are fundamentally dangerous to women.
The insistence that TERFism as an ideology has any substantial correlation to a sincere belief that men are "mindless rapists" is obviously false, given that the most prominent TERFs in politics and art are clearly able to imagine male subjects of having internality.
I really, really dislike the very obviously false claim that TERFism is substantiated on man hate and I think that very claim exemplifies the phenomenon I complain about here. A man's imagined suffering is more important and pressing than the real abuse and assault of women.
no they literally do hate men
they hate trans women because they think theyre men in disguise to beat them in sports or sneaking into womens bathrooms to rape them
nobody forced you to make a fool of yourself like this. if you had just stayed silent and kept scrolling nobody would know that you trust bigots to tell you their actual motivations. they wouldn't see you try to explain to somebody who's clearly quite versed in TERF rhetoric that no, terfs mean exactly what they say and there is no possible alternate reasoning they're keeping hidden on purpose.
it would serve you well to be less confident in your own correctness
people who think that terfs actually hate men also think that nazis are socialists
