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IOUnixIs there anyone capable of having a thoughtful and rational conversation about #AI. I'm so sick of only find the 2 talking points of it's either the salvation for all of mankind or literally the devil.
harryprayiv@mastodonmigration to me, this doesn’t sound like a revelation; it just confirms what I had already observed to be true since at least George W. Bush’s reign of terror.
Judging by her impotent record/past experience with her & Robert Reich talking a big talk but effectively doing nothing, the only reason neolib elite Warren is up-in-arms about it is that her cadre of criminals haven’t gotten their customary cut of the profits.
Weary Wulf[P] I think that aside from giving me so much anxiety that I had a fainting seizure (maybe a TIA?), the other aspect of this is that it's giving me an ego.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/1tgcv65/ukregistered_firms_linked_to_payments_for/
I am objectively better than the racists there. They're like MAGA conspiracy theorists. The ego isn't too bad though as I bet many neurodivergent people are far better than them, too. It isn't hard to outdo monsters.
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WIST QuotationsA quotation from Hannah Arendt
The disturbing factor in the success of totalitarianism is rather the true selflessness of its adherents: it may be understandable that a Nazi or Bolshevik will not be shaken in his conviction by crimes against people who do not belong to the movement or are even hostile to it; but the amazing fact is that neither is he likely to waver when the monster begins to devour its own children, and not even if he becomes a victim of persecution himself, if he is framed and condemned, if he is purged from the party and sent to a forced-labor or concentration camp. On the contrary, to the wonder of the whole civilized world, he may even be willing to help in his own prosecution and frame his own death sentence if only his status as a member of the movement is not touched.Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 10 “A Classless Society,” sec. 1 (1951)
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Arendt, Hannah - Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 10 "A Classless Society," sec. 1 (1951) | WIST Quotations
The disturbing factor in the success of totalitarianism is rather the true selflessness of its adherents: it may be understandable that a Nazi or Bolshevik will not be shaken in his conviction by crimes against people who do not belong to the movement or are even hostile to it; but…
[P] This is why I'm child-free. A world with an allistic majoeity, all of whom have a quiet wish for genocide? I wouldn'f torture a newborn autistic child with that. I had to live through this hell and I cannot ever impose it on a new life. I could never be so greedy and cruel. What do you think the future looks like in a world where the allistic majority cherishes a quiet wish for genocide? War, war, and more war.
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[P] The allistic majoeity always votes with a quiet wish for genocide in their bleak, blackened, twisted "hearts," though I'm hesitant to call it a heart with how dessicated it is. I just don't want to live on this planet anymore. I wish there was some way for the moral, autistic minority to just transpose ourselves to some elseplace. I'm glad I won't have to live much longer, but the poor damn kids...
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[P] It proves that most of the allistic majority align more with Nazi thinking than not, it is a quiet wish for genocide. Why a quiet wish? Because they're greedy cowards, like all monsters are. They want someoene else to build the gas chambers and to tell them it's okay. A quiet wish for genocise is unreconcilable with decency, morality, ethics, empathy, fairness, or justice. And that's why my faith is shattered.
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[P] Reform are so mask-off racist. And don't make excuses for the allistic majority—they aren't stupid, it's insulting to them and everyone else to suggest they didn't understand or care about the racism. And don't try to feed me any horse manure about protest votes, because they could've voted Green. No, every allistic who voted Reform was voting specifically for tribal racism. It's a quiet wish for genocide.
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[P] The interesting thing about all this is is that I think Reform winning so many seats has actually shattered my faith in the allistic majority possessing any goodness. I always had some glimmer of optimism but it isn't there anymore. I now only see tribal cruelty. I see primitive savagery. I see wilful ignorance and the choice to be as uneducated as possible. I see witless homunculi. I see greedy monsters.
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