AnarchoNinaWrites
I'm not at all yelling at the person in my mentions, but I think we all need to dispose of the idea that the folks who actually own everything and run our society are somehow, by accident, installing fascism and running us off the ecological cliff because "stupid" or "short-sighted."
They know man, they've admitted as much. That's what "longtermism" is. That's why Peter Thiel writes essays for other rich capitalists about why democracy has to go
The fascism and murder is intentional. They know
AnarchoNinaWrites
Everyone: "Gee I wonder why the computer programs created by all these rich nazis that rich people are trying to install into the decision trees all over our society keep spitting up answers that agree with nazism/white supremacy/genocide? Must be some kinda mistake..."
Me: *thousand yard stare*
AnarchoNinaWrites
You? Might not obey when they tell you to kill billions. You? Might not agree that the "best way forward" is dozens and dozens of genocides so Elon Musk and the boys can keep growing their wealth.
But a computer? Programed BY guys like Elon Musk? That doesn't now anything about right and wrong except what guys like Elon Musk told it?
It'll comply with that just fine.
So it IS an existential threat because replacing PEOPLE with PROGRAMS is how you get away with genocidal fascism.
AnarchoNinaWrites
They know. It's not an accident. It's not because they're idiots. It's not because they're short-sighted. The capitalist class is installing fascism precisely because they know you won't VOTE to die so they can keep doing capitalism on a boiling planet. They know fascism is the form that ALLOWS for the mass genocides necessary to keep doing capitalism on a boiling planet. This is HOW they win, by removing you from the decision circles ENTIRELY.
AnarchoNinaWrites
Everything they do, is about this. Everything. Take for example AI? You folks drive me nuts when you're like "this is not an existential threat because the computer isn't going to take over and kill us all."
NO, the people RUNNING the computers are. They're doing it right now. They ALREADY run bartertown. AI is an existential threat BECAUSE it's a machine for the fascists to remove HUMANS from decision CIRCLES.
AnarchoNinaWrites
Not only do they know, they have known for a LONG DAMN TIME.
The data has been available to THEM for decades. They know the planet is boiling, they know capitalism is doing it, they know you're not going to go quietly, they know democratic forms, even faux democratic forms, are incompatible with running billions of people off the ecological cliff for the profit of a few thousand billionaires. That's WHY they're replacing you with script programs and talking about running to Mars.
CedarTea
@AnarchoNinaWrites Already seeing this in Gaza:
https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/
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