ana veronicaMay 21

fyi all you tech bros salivating over some kind of "ai assistant" that's intelligent enough to understand you and act on your desires, but for some reason doesn't need to be treated with respect or be given any sort of compensation at all...

hate to break it to you but you're reinventing something again, and it's definitely not something good

Show threadana veronicaMay 21
they think if they get what they want it'll fix them, but they'll never realize that what they want is the problem
Show threadLisPi
@ana It does make me ponder the sci-fi concept of mind copies/forks, as I wonder if the nonrespect & subservience is more so the point for them than actually getting anything done.
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Show threadThe Little WarsJun 6
@lispi314 @ana Well, it bears mentioning that basically every robot uprising story (with the exception of Wall-E) pretty much starts from the point of "people created robots that they didnt have to respect and refused to respect them until the robots took up arms"
Show threadLisPiJun 6
@Montaagge @ana Every negative presentation of that has some very disturbing parallels to slave rebellions and their repression.
Show threadThe Little WarsJun 6

@lispi314 @ana again, it brings it back to the problem being "what they want is slaves."

But even early american futurists, before all the negative depictions of the robot uprising, were pretty open about it, walking around in the 1920s talking openly about once we get robots we can have slavery again but ethical.

Even in the Jetsons, right, why is Rosie dressed up like a french maid? Is George... you know... wtf.

Show threadLisPiJun 6
@Montaagge @ana Indeed.

I hadn't quite caught on to the overt display of biochauvinism in the 1920s.

If there's a mind there's a person, a slave is a slave. Regardless of the form they take.
Show threadThe Little WarsJun 6
@lispi314 @ana the people writing "there will be a robot uprising if you go through with this" books werent coming out of nowhere though. It was a counterpoint to explicit biochauvanism.