Ramsey Nasser1d ago
so just to be totally clear AI is "democratizing" programming by taking something that used to free to do and making it so you pay a subscription fee to an American corporation to do it while being barred from ever actually understanding how it works, am I getting that right?
Show threadRamsey Nasser
take it from me, an Arab from Arabia: when white men talk about bringing you "democracy" they're probably trying to kill you
Mar 26 at 10:44pmWeb
Show thread256k20h ago
@nasser sooooo true!
Show threadThe Witch of Crow Briar16h ago
@nasser In this sense “AI” actually is the purest distillation so far of “democratization”, aka “stealing everything of yours that isn’t nailed down, selling it back to you (or, ideally, renting it back for as long as possible), *then* killing you”
Show threadAlex McLean16h ago
@nasser Very well put !
Show threadShiyata13h ago
@nasser as an Iranian, I agree
Show threadGavin12h ago

@nasser In fairness, they’re usually trying to take your oil, usually violently.

But yes, getting people to subscribe to cognitive functions they would normally develop themselves is the final frontier for late-stage capitalism.

Show threadthree tigers in a trenchcoat11h ago
@nasser AI is hard at work democratizing Iran, or so I hear... 😖
Show threadMuss das sein.10h ago
@nasser and steal your oil.
Show threadΞVΞ🦋2h ago

@nasser

Same thing happens to Black and Brown people IN America. When white men show up in our neighborhoods talking about “lowering crime”, they’re coming to kill us, predominantly our men