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   Christine Lemmer-Webber 🌀 (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 05-May-2025 16:31:41 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber 🌀

   It's so frustrating to see tech CEOs be like "wow omg interacting with a chatbot is amazing, it's basically sapient" but like, if it was sapient, then we would need to both give it rights and hold it accountable

   But a slave workforce which the company can simultaneously use to deny accountability is, of course, exactly the appeal

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 06-May-2025 21:34:06 JST Charlie Stross

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     @cwebber

     The value proposition for robots and AI is always slavery, with slaves who don't need feeding and can't rebel.

     Just as the values behind Mars colonization are a white supremacist ethnostate in space (without having to massacre any indigenes first).

     The tech CEOs soaked it up in their childhood from "golden age" science fiction, which predated the civil rights movement.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 06-May-2025 21:35:29 JST Rich Felker

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     • Medea Vanamonde🏳️‍⚧️ ♀

     @cstross @MishaVanMollusq @cwebber I think Mayo is a stand-in for white (maybe disgustingly white).

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     Medea Vanamonde🏳️‍⚧️ ♀ (mishavanmollusq@sfba.social)'s status on Tuesday, 06-May-2025 21:35:31 JST Medea Vanamonde🏳️‍⚧️ ♀

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     @cstross @cwebber

     Those olde boys and a few girls did write a significantly Mayo Tomorrow Land

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 06-May-2025 21:35:31 JST Charlie Stross

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     • Medea Vanamonde🏳️‍⚧️ ♀

     @MishaVanMollusq @cwebber I couldn't parse that statement. Mayonnaise? Tomorrow Land?