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The further I am from abject poverty and living only to survive, the less I need #AI. And you know what this makes me realize?

That folks who hate AI are effectively the same as wholly able-bodied people pushing each other around on wheelchairs, doing wheelies, and then telling the rest of the world how useless wheelchairs are because they, personally, can’t find a non-trivial use for them.

Maybe AI isn’t for the average person? Maybe our privilege—that thing that lets us feel certain of tomorrow’s food and shelter—makes AI worthless and even harmful to most human beings.

That’d be quite the thing, wouldn’t it?

#ArtificialIntelligence #TechPrivilege #Accessibility #SociologyOfTech #AIEthics #ClassAndTech #SystemicEquity

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James H 2d ago

@EllisArcwolf No one *needs* AI. Absolutely no one. And I say that as a disabled person who has been too poor to afford rent and groceries. I use AI in the ways that I do because I can now afford to. But if AI didn't exist tomorrow, it would have very little affect on me. The employers who believe my job can and should be done by AI, however, might have a problem.

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Ellis C. A. Arcwolf (Author)2d ago

@quanin

I dunno why I'm the one that needs to tell you this, but you don't speak for every disabled person just because you are one.

As it happens, I'm disabled too. So I also get to decide.

Related!

You know what you also don't "need"? A dishwasher. Hypocrisy sure likes to sneak up on ya, doesn't it?

You're new here. You may have missed the essay below. But after you read it, you'll see why I can only roll my eyes at yet another white person trying to tell me how to underprivilege. :P

https://eldritch.cafe/deck/@EllisArcwolf/116131859022211863

Ellis C. A. Arcwolf (Author) (@[email protected])

I'm so done with the thoughtlessness of this polemic. Don't talk to me about AI. I gave you an essay that is more comprehensive than anything you've seen before and more well-considered than any thought *you've* ever had about AI. I spent a week nearly exclusively researching and writing all 50+ pages of it. Read it: https://open.substack.com/pub/arcwolf/p/good-ai-bad-ai?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=6y14a6 You may disagree, but I don't care. You have my essay, it has already refuted literally every point you'll make, and I refuse to waste my time talking to people that refuse to engage with reality because they get off the dopamine hit of owning someone on the Internet. This is why I don't allow comments on my Substack unless you're subscribed to it. Wanna criticize me? Pay me for the right. Otherwise, go hang out with my ex-abusers instead. Y'all deserve each other. EDIT: They blocked me. 😹 They're always the same. No real action. Only hate and rage and the desire to abuse others. Thank you, trash, for taking yourself out. But more importantly, thank you for literally proving my essay's thesis on the ineffectiveness of your regressive MO! EDIT 2: This is definitely getting pinned. If you were pointed here, you're invited to reconsider your behavior and become a better person by joining the fight against AI companies in a meaningful way. Performative virtue signalers who don't get it will be blocked with prejudice.

Eldritch Café

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James H 2d ago

@EllisArcwolf You're right. I don't need a dish washer. Most of the places I've lived didn't have one. Having one is a preference, but that's really all it is.

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Ellis C. A. Arcwolf (Author)2d ago

@quanin

Cool. Do wheelchairs and crutches also go on the list of things that you can personally do without and don't give a shit that others with less than you might need?

Wondering where you draw the line on who's allowed to live.

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James H 2d ago

@EllisArcwolf Nope. But if you literally cannot function without AI in the same way that someone cannot function without a wheelchair, you have much bigger problems than your disability.

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Ellis C. A. Arcwolf (Author)2d ago

@quanin

Nah. It's just your fucking disability you ableist piece of shit.