Barabas [he/him]

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Cake day: August 2nd, 2020

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  • Does this mean that my TI-84 calculator was actually an AI since it could solve equations I put into it? Or Wolfram Alpha? Or a speed camera? These are all able to read external inputs to produce an output. At which point does your line go, because the current technology is nowhere near where mine goes.

    We are currently ruining the biosphere so that some people might earn a lot of money by being able to lay off workers. If you remove this integral part to what “AI” is and all other negative externalities of course it will look better, but not all of the externalities are tied to the capitalist mode of production. Economies and resource allocation would still be a thing without capitalism, it isn’t like everything magically becomes good.









  • The most interesting version of this German brainworm are the people who think that there has to be a Jewish ethnonationalist state or they’ll be persecuted, as it is in the nature of people to persecute Jews (and any other minority by extension). This is why being anti-Zionist means that you want to get rid of Jews in their eyes. The source for this specific brainworm is likely rationalizing why grandpa who was so kind to you was likely approving or complicit in the Holocaust. If it is simply human nature it is less unforgivable. It is a way to appear to be introspective and making amends without actually doing any introspection or improving things.