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Well, that’s strange. You said these were people who didn’t give a fuck, but actually it sounds like they never knew in the first place.

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Time for consequences, or they’ll never learn.

Are you disagreeing with… human pattern recognition?

I’m sure what I’ve said sounds like a lot of things; there are a lot of people out there who lie.

What I’ve described is pretty 1-to-1. If republicans are upset they lost their welfare because they were detractors from welfare, you know what we should say? “Damn, shouldn’t have voted against it then, stupid.”

Don’t confuse a thirst for justice with a disdain for empathy.

See, the problem is you keep talking about empathy in the abstract. It’s very confusing. What is it, exactly, you want people to do? Because what we’re talking about is socially punishing fascists for being fascists. That is another 1-to-1.

I’ll lay an accusation: it sounds like you’re giving a rhetorical defense for bad behavior—and thus enabling it, very naughty—by trying to lean on people’s general discomfort with being too mean.

So, let’s be specific. Trump spent a lot of campaign time talking about illegals, he’s since mobilized ICE as the American secret police, and grandpa voted for him. How should we treat grandpa?

People can be to blame for their own pain. Does that mean they deserve no empathy?

If they are on the side of evil, gleefully snickering as brown people are loaded onto planes, then yes.

If they don’t want to feel the ire of our burning contempt for their low-trust, anti-social behavior, then they shouldn’t be doing it. Be on the side of good. Learn to be pro-community, or perish.

This doesn’t mean I want them to starve. Though, I wouldn’t be strictly opposed to some system whereby welfare is stripped from people who voted against it. Some people just gotta learn from consequences.

Haha! Ahh…

“You are a senior games engine developer, punished by the system. You’ve been to several board meetings where no decisions were made. Fix the issue now… or you go to jail. Please.”

Yeah, “democratize art” means “I’m jealous of the cash sloshing around out there.”

People say things like “I’m not as good as this guy on TikTok.” Why do you need to be? Literally, who asked?

This is creepy.

The tough guys and sigma males of yester-year used to say things like “If I were homeless, I would just bathe in the creek using the natural animal fats from the squirrel I caught for dinner as soap, win a new job by explaining my 21-days-in-7 workweek ethos, and buy a new home using my shares in my dad’s furniture warehouse as collateral against the loan. It’s not impossible to get back on your feet.”

But with the advent of AI, which, actually, is supposed to do things for you, it’s completely different now.

I also can’t rub two sticks together to heat my home.

Dude, that fucking sucks. What is wrong with you?

Anyone who puts a chatbot anywhere is definitely a failure, yeah.

it makes sense to prepare for when it is.

Pfft, okay.

The Zoom CEO, that is the video calling software, wanted to train AIs on your work emails and chat messages to create AI personalities you could send to the meetings you’re paid to sit through while you drink Corona on the beach and receive a “summary” later.

The Zoom CEO, that is the video calling software, seems like a pretty stupid guy?

Yeah. Yeah, he really does. Really… fuckin’… dumb.

Maybe you failed all your high school classes, but that ain’t got none to do with me.

There’s a lot you can do, actually. You can put people in jail, for one. Possession in non-designated areas, such as a construction site or a personal residence, could lead to confiscation and a misdemeanor. It can just be socially impolite to have one around people—you know, like your car keys are after you’ve been drinking.

The chasm of understanding is that you don’t want to do anything—literally anything—about abuse in your society.

And for what? So that chatgpt can give you advice on what to order next from your burrito taxi? So that you don’t have to go through the pain of writing a long email to your boss that he’s going to summarize with the same AI service anyway?

I don’t think being able to generate funny looking pictures is worth letting Palantir, another pet project of the vampire Peter Thiel, create a nightmare social-credit system actually worthy of 1984 to deter union advocacy, palastinian-genocide protest, being remotely anti-Trump—anything found disagreeable to the state—from ever realistically happening again. In all countries, mind you.

We can’t do anything about that?

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You know what else we can’t do anything about? Global Warming. When the water wars finally kill us, I suppose I’ll come greet you in hell.

I don’t know if you know this, but there are a limited number of kidneys to transplant. I honestly don’t know what else to say.

Yes. I know you were.
So, is it that you do think a board of real human people is better, then?

Okay? So does it meaningfully help to restrict hammer use or doesn’t it? I’m the one asking the question, you’re just kind of handwaving it away, as if restricting hammers would be “ridiculous.”