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   mhoye (mhoye@cosocial.ca)'s status on Friday, 12-Jun-2026 23:55:49 JST mhoye

   I know things are difficult and complicated and muddy sometimes, but I still think that if your argument amounts to "I know about all the externalities and the consequences but those happen to other people and it works great for me so I think it's great and I'm going to keep doing it", you've told me as much as I need to know about you.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jun-2026 00:01:15 JST Rich Felker

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     @mhoye I don't think you're wrong, but I also think this is a prompt to think about things that are already deeply engrained for many of us with negative externalities, where it feels like whether we do it or not makes no difference. To the folks caught up deeply in the "AI" delusion, it probably already feels engrained and inevitable in the same way. Of course they're wrong, but perhaps we're wrong about a lot more things too. "AI" is just a much faster burn (by orders of magnitude) than the rest of capitalism.