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Absolutely. I used the word “experience” and not “feel” intentionally here. People who raise and kill animals for a living try to think of animals like meat robots, they want to believe pain is just something animals sense rather than a subjective experience.

Sometimes, they successfully fool themselves so they don’t have to feel bad for the animals they hurt and kill. Other times they develop all sorts of disorders and addictions. Sometimes they kill themselves.

It doesn’t matter. People have already made up their minds, facts are irrelevant.

That’s extremely challenging for a lot of people. A lot of people aren’t even willing to accept animals experience pain.

I really don’t think any of this is intentional, though. It’s just the contradictions being heightened.

No one will learn anything from this.

Would you rather live in Xinjiang or in Gaza?

That’s because duodecimal is a great system and superior to decimalization.

Is that not a sunk cost fallacy?

The sunk cost fallacy would be “we’ve already invested so much into AI, we have to keep investing into AI to make it worthwhile!” As long as we’re not pouring more resources into AI there isn’t an issue. An AI model that is already trained won’t be untrained because we stop using it, after all.

It’s like freeganism.

This is the best use for AI image generators imo: throwaway meme slop that isn’t really supposed to look very good, wouldn’t have been made otherwise, doesn’t make any money off of other people’s labor, and did not take away a labor opportunity/labor power from anyone. It’s not like the AI companies are making money off of this, not even close, they’re all bleeding to death.

Oh it’s wasting water and electricity? The water and electricity were already wasted by training, you can’t un-waste the water or electricity. In fact, if you refuse to use the AI model they trained then the water and electricity were wasted for nothing!

Oh it’s plagiarism? Oh not precious property rights, I didn’t realize we were fucking capitalists protecting the sanctity of copyright.

It’s the equivalent of knowing the difference between “poisonous” and “venomous”

For the vast majority of people it doesn’t matter. Maybe they learned in 8th grade, but they forgot, because it never came back up.

I’m just observing that authoritarianism is essentially “water is wet” as a political concept. It’s vacuous and useless.

Someone not knowing there’s a difference between “radiation” and “radioactivity” doesn’t make them stupid.

Oh no, I’m not an anarchist. I’m a Marxist, I understand the state to be an organ by which one class represses another.

That’s why I’m saying “authoritarianism” is gibberish. There’s no other way to organize complex society. For now.

You’re not making sense. If you are you the enemy of the state, why are you pretending that non-authoritarian states exist?

They obviously don’t. A state literally can’t be build on total/absolute consent unless it’s populated by the Borg. There will always be internal opposition that needs to be repressed by authority and coerced into obedience to maintain order. Hence, gibberish.

It absolutely is: prisons, police, borders, it’s all authoritarian. There can’t be such a thing as a non-authoritarian state, because if there was it would be quickly overthrown by people willing to impose authority.

I’ll at least respect anarchists for being consistent. Anyone who pretends “not me tho I’m different” is a hypocrite.

A liberal that hates leftists? Shocker!

The concept of “authoritarianism” is gibberish, that’s why it can be applied to the left and right. All states are authoritarian.

Unless you’re an anarchist, you’re an authoritarian too. You just think your authority is legitimate and fair and righteous.

Not really.

It’s “Don’t tread on ME” after all. Pigs don’t tread on them, they just warnings. They don’t care if other people are tread on.

Also known as fascism.

It’s less so about some arms race between countries over the technology and more to do with a difference of global opinion.

Well, yeah, if you look at the data center build-out the reason for this is obvious. The US is destroying itself trying to build as many data centers as fast as possible, every other country is taking it slow and steady. People are reacting to their material conditions.

Not specifically. I’m referring to the fact that any assigned reading in a public school is, by definition, assigned by the government.